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The sin specified in the passage , is that of doing violence to the nature of a man - to his intrinsic value as a rational being , and blotting out the exalted distinction stamped upon him by his Maker . In the verse preceding , and in ...
The sin specified in the passage , is that of doing violence to the nature of a man - to his intrinsic value as a rational being , and blotting out the exalted distinction stamped upon him by his Maker . In the verse preceding , and in ...
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In the next verse , " He that stealeth a man , " & c . , the SAME PRINCIPLE is wrought out in still stronger relief . The crime to be punished with death was not the taking of property from its owner , but the doing violence to an ...
In the next verse , " He that stealeth a man , " & c . , the SAME PRINCIPLE is wrought out in still stronger relief . The crime to be punished with death was not the taking of property from its owner , but the doing violence to an ...
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The same word , and the same form of the word , which , in verse 47 , is rendered sell himself , is in verse 39 of the same chapter , rendered be sold ; in Deut . xxviii . 68 , the same word is rendered " be ...
The same word , and the same form of the word , which , in verse 47 , is rendered sell himself , is in verse 39 of the same chapter , rendered be sold ; in Deut . xxviii . 68 , the same word is rendered " be ...
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Property lost , and cattle escaped , they were required to return , but not escaped servants . These verses contain 1st , a command , " Thou shalt not deliver , " & c . , 2d , a declaration of the fugitive's right ...
Property lost , and cattle escaped , they were required to return , but not escaped servants . These verses contain 1st , a command , " Thou shalt not deliver , " & c . , 2d , a declaration of the fugitive's right ...
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Of their own accord they came to Joseph and said , " We have not aught left but our bodies and our lands ; buy us ; " then in the 25th verse , " We will be servants to Pharaoh . " XI . We infer the voluntariness of servants , from the ...
Of their own accord they came to Joseph and said , " We have not aught left but our bodies and our lands ; buy us ; " then in the 25th verse , " We will be servants to Pharaoh . " XI . We infer the voluntariness of servants , from the ...
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Page 17 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 25 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 18 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 8 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 1 - Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 20 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 17 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.