d For although he could not cauſeleſly put her away without fin, yet ſhe being put away, and forſaken by her husband, might marry another without fin, as is determined in the ſame or a like caſe, T Cor. 7. 15.
3 And #f the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it her in her hand, and ſendeth her out ofhis houſe : or if the later husband die, which took her to be his wife :
4 * Her former husband, which ſent her away, may not take her again e to be his wife after that ſhe is defi- led f: for that is abomination before the LORD, and [| chou ſhalc not cauſe the land to ſin g, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
e This is the puniſhment of his levity and ipjuſtice in putting her away without ſufficient cauſe, which by this offer he now ac- knowledgeth. f Not ſimply and{abſolutely, as if her ſecond Mar- riage were a fin, but reſpeCively, or as to her firſt Husband, to whom ſhe is as a defiled or unclean Woman, that is, forbidden ; for things forbidden are accounted and called unclean, Judg. 13. 1. be» cauſe they may no more be touched or uſed than an unclean thing. g (i.e.) Thou ſhalt norſuffer ſuch abominable lightneſs and lewdneſs to be practiſed, leſt the people be polluted, and the land defiled and accuried by that means.
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go out to war, Þ neither ſhall he be charged with any T H-b.w
buſineſs þ : buthe ſhall be free at home one year 3, and ro/gw: {ball chear up his wife which he hath taken. pon him, h ( i.e.) Any publick Office or Employment, which may cauſe an abſence from or negle& of his Wife. # That their affe&ions newly engaged may be firmly ſettled, ſo as there may be no occa- ſions for the divorces laſt mentioned. 6 No man ſhall take the nether or the upper milſtone
z to pledge: for he takech a man's Þ lifek to pledge.
z: Uſed in their hand-mills, of which ſee Exod. 11. 5. Num. 11. 28. Jer. 25. 10. Under this one kind, he underſtands all other things neceſſary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is againſt the Laws both of Charity and Prudence, ſeing by thoſe things alone he can be enabled both ro ſubfiſt and to pay his debts. & (5. e. ) His livelihood, or the neceſlary ſupperts of his life. |
7 If a man be found ſtealing any of his brethren 7 of the children of Ifrael, and maketh merchandiſe of him, or ſelleth him, then that thief (ball die, and thou ſhalt
put evil away from among you. 1 See on Exod. 21. 16. s s Take heed in * the plague of leproſie, that thou * Lev:1y obſerve diligently, and doaccording toall thatthe prieits & 14 the Levites ſhall teach you : as I commanded them ms, ſo ye (ball obſerve to do.
m By which words he plainly intimates, that they were'not only to have an eye to the Levites Inſtruftions, but alſo and eſpecially | unto the Word and Command of God, and that if the Levites ſen- tence were manifeſtly contrary to the Command of God, it were not to be obeyed. As now if a Levite or Prieſt ſhould, for fear, or favour, or gain, pronounce a perſon to be clean, who were really and manifeſtly unclean, and had the unqueftionable marks of leproſie upon him, I ſuppoſe no man in his wits will queſtion, bur every man that ſaw and knew this were bound to avoid the teuching of him, and that if he did touch him he ſhould be defiled by it.
9 Remember what the LORD thy God did * unto * Num: Miriam » by the way after that we were gome forth out 12: 19 of Egypt.
7» Whom God ſmote with leprofie for her contempt of Moſes, and therefore thou mayſt expe the ſame or like puniſhment, if thou doſt deſpiſe the counſe] and dire&ion of the Levites, which I have ſet over thee, and commanded thee to obſerve in this and the like matters.
10 When thou doſt + lead thy brother any thing, +1cs.lw | thou ſhalt not go into his houſe to fetch his pledge #9. the boy |
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o To prevent both the poor man's Reproach by having his wants ng &c. expoſed to view, and the Creditor's Inſolence and greedineſs which might be occaſioned by theſight of ſomething which he deſired, and the Debtor could not ſpare.
It Thou ſhalt ſtand abroad, and the man eo whom _ doſt lend ſhall bring out the pledge p abroad unto tnCee.
2 He ſhall chuſe what Pledge he pleaſe, provided only it be ſuf- ficient for the purpoſe.
12 And if the man be poor, thou ſhalt not ſleep with his pledge 9g:
q Bur reſtore it before night, which intimates that he ſhould take no ſuch thing for pledge, without which a man canner ſleep, ſince it were an idle thing to fetch it and carry it every day. Ses on Exeadus 22.26, 27.
13 * In any caſe thou ſhalt deliver him the pledge
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own raiment, and * bleſs thee» : and it ſhal be righte- ouſneſs unto thee before the LORD thy God 5.
- Inftrumenrally,. as Miniſters are faid to convert and fave fin- ners, to wit,bring down the bleſling of God upon thee by his pray- ers: for though his prayers, if he be not a good man, ſhall not a- vail for his own behalf, yet they ſhall avail for thy benefit. - (7.e) Efſtcemed and accepted by God as a Work of Righteouſneſs,or,Ho- lineſs, or Goodneſs and Mercy, which oft is called righteouſneſs, as Pſal. 112.9. Prov. 10. 2. Dan. 4. 27. TO :
14 Thou ſhalt not oppreſs an hired ſervant 7 rhat 5s poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy