THE LAW OF MOSES.

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• Part IV. The Civil Code.
 

Chapter I: Sexual Relations.  Chapter II: The Law of Inheritance.  Chapter III: Provisions for the Poor.

Chapter IV: The Law of Servitude.  Chapter V: Crimes and Punishments.  Chapter VI: Military and Judicial Laws.

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IV. THE CIVIL CODE.

CHAPTER I.

SEXUAL RELATIONS.

§ I. UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES. Lev. xviii. 1-18; xx. 11-21.

1. Introductory Warning. xviii. 1-5.

• Why say, "I am Jehovah your God," etc.? 2.
• What the "doings" of Egypt and Canaan? 3, cf. xviii. 27.
• Why Canaanites expelled? Lev. xviii. 24, 28.

2. Prohibited Relationships. 6-8.

• Was this a new law?
• What the Christian law?

3. Penalties for Incest. Lev. xx. 11-21.

• Why the exceptions in 20, 21?
• What the penalties with us?

§ II. UNLAWFUL INTERCOURSE.

1. With a Woman in Uncleanness. Lev. xviii. 19-22.

2. Adultery. Lev. xix. 20-22; Deut. xxii. 22-24.

3. Rape. Deut. xxii. 25-29.

4. Fornication with a Maid, Including Whoredom. [115]
Ex. xxii. 16, 17; Deut. xxiii. 17, cf. Lev. xxi. 5.

5. Bestiality. Lev. xx. 15, 16.

6. Sodomy. Lev. xx. 13.

• What the penalties with us?

§ III. LAWFUL MARRIAGES.

1. All not Prohibited.

• Why?

2. A Captive: under What Conditions? Deut. xxi. 10-14.

3. A Brother's Widow: When? Deut. xxv. 5-10.

• Was this new? Cf. Gen. xxxviii. 8, 9.
• An example, Ruth. Ruth, iv. 1-12.
• New Testament allusion. Matt. xxii. 23-28.

§ IV. THE LAW OF JEALOUSY.

1. A Wife Suspected of Adultery. Num. v. 11-31.

• Why the effect of the water? 27.
• Purpose of the law?
• Have we a case under it?

2. A Bride Suspected of Fornication. Deut. xxii. 13-21.

• Was whoredom tolerated? Deut. xxii. 17.

3. Eunuchs and Bastards. Deut. xxiii. 1, 2.

• How could there be any bastards under the law?
• Purpose of this law?
• How could the eunuch of Acts, viii. 27, 28 go up to worship?

§ V. DIVORCE. Deut. xxii. 19, 28, 29; xxiv. 1-4.

• Why give a bill of writing?
• Why not marry again in the case supposed? 3, 4.
• What limit to the right of divorce? [116] xxii. 19, 28, 29.
• Did this law originate divorce?
• Why was easy divorce permitted? Matt. xix. 3-9.

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CHAPTER II.

THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.

§ I. THE GENERAL LAW, AND ITS ORIGIN. Num. xxvii. 1-11.

• Right of the oldest son? Deut. xxi. 15-17.
• Could the law be altered by will?
• Why not give daughters equal shares?

§ II. WITH REFERENCE TO TRIBES. Num. xxxvi. 1-13.

• Why would the land pass to the other tribes?

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CHAPTER III.

PROVISIONS FOR THE POOR.

§ I. MINOR PROVISIONS.
Lev. xix. 9; xxv. 35-38; Deut. xxiii. 19, 20; Deut. xxiv. 6, 10-15, 17, 19-22.

1. Usury Forbidden. Lev. xxv. 35-38; Deut. xxiii. 19, 20.

• Effect on the credit system?
• How would this benefit the poor?
• A test of righteousness: why? Cf. Ps. xv. 1-5.
• Why permitted to take usury from foreigners?

2. The Law of Pledges. Deut. xxiv. 6, 10-13, 17.

• Why these regulations?

3. Prompt Payment of Hire. 14, 15. [117]

• What distress from neglect of this?
• Would this prevent hire by the week or the month?

4. Of Gleanings. 19-22; Lev. xix. 9.

• Was this law observed? Cf. Ruth, ii. 2, 3.

§ II. THE SABBATICAL YEAR.

1. The First Enactment. Ex. xxiii. 10, 11.

• How would the people spend the time?
• What the purpose of this law?
• Could it have been self-imposed?
• Was it afterwards observed? Cf. II. Chron. xxxvi. 21; Josephus, Antiquities, XI. viii. 5; XIV. x. 6; Tacitus, History, v. 4.

2. The Re-enactment. Lev. xxv. 1-8.

• Why this repetition? Cf. 8.

3. A Later Provision. Deut. xv. 1-11.

• Effect of this on the credit system?
• Who would be in debt? 7-9.
• To what motive is the appeal made? 10.
• How reconcile the statements about the poor in 4 and 11?

§ III. THE JUBILE YEAR. Lev. xxv. 8-55.

1. The Time and General Character of This Observance. xxv. 8-12.

• Why did it begin on the day of atonement? 9.
• Meaning of jubile?
• At what time of the day was the trumpet blown?

2. Its Effect on the Price of Lands. 13-17.

• To what was the sale equivalent?
• Reason for not selling in perpetuity? 23.
• What the policy of this law? [118]

3. Assurance of Plenty in the Seventh Year of Rest. 18-22.

• Why would they need fruit for three years? 21.
• Why say the eighth year? 22.

4. The Right of Redemption of Lands. 23-28.

• Design of this?

5. Redemption of City, Village, and Levite Houses. 29-38.

• Why the distinctions?
• What is the law of redemption in our States?

6. Its Effect on Hebrew Bondmen. 39-55, see 40, 41, 47-50, 54.

• State of feeling on the arrival of the jubile?

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CHAPTER IV.

THE LAW OF SERVITUDE.

§ I. AS GIVEN IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.
Ex. xxi. 2-11, 16, 20, 21; xxii. 14.

1. The Rights of Hebrew Bondmen. Ex. xxi. 2-6.

• Did this originate such bondage? 2.
• Why the distinction about his family?
• How "bring him unto God"? 6.
• Why the hole in his ear?

2. Rights of a Hebrew Bondwomen. 7-11; Deut. xv. 12-17.

• Did this permit a man to sell his daughter? 7.
• What implied as to selling a son?
• Why not go out as the man would? 7.
• Design of the regulation about marriage?
• What usually became of bondwomen? [119]

3. Kidnaping. 16.

4. Killing a Bond-servant in Chastising Him. 20, 21.

• Why the distinction?

5. Sale of an Insolvent Thief. Ex. xxii. 1-4.

• For what length of time?

§ II. AS GIVEN IN LEVITICUS. Lev. xxv. 35-55.

1. Further Rights of Hebrew Bondmen. 35-43.

• Why sell himself and family on account of poverty?
• Why say he shall serve to jubile, if free the seventh year? 40, cf. Ex. xxi. 1-6.

2. Who Might Be Permanent Bondmen. 44-46.

• To which class is reference made in the provision about chastising? 46, cf. Ex. xxi. 20, 21.

3. Rights of a Hebrew Sold to a Foreigner. 47-55.

• Why not go out the seventh year?
• Why the right of redemption? 48, 49.
• Reason given for these rights? 55.

§ III. PROVISION TO BE MADE FOR FREEDMEN. Deut. xv. 12-18.

• Why worth double a hired servant? 18.
• Why not the same for those released by the jubile?

§ IV. RIGHTS OF FOREIGN BONDMEN.

1. Protection of Life and Limb. Ex. xxi. 20, 21, 26, 27.

2. No Release. Lev. xxv. 44-46.

• Why?

3. No Return of Fugitives. Deut. xxiii. 15, 16.

• Why?
• Compare these with heathen laws. [120]

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CHAPTER V.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

§ I. CAPITAL CRIMES.

1. Murder. Ex. xxi. 12-14, cf. I. Ki. i. 50; ii. 28.

• Number of witnesses necessary to conviction? Num. xxxv. 30; Deut. xvi. 6; Heb. x. 28, 29.

2. Murder by a Vicious Animal. Ex. xxi. 28-32.

3. Kidnaping. Ex. xxi. 16; Deut. xxiv. 7.

4. Idolatry. Deut. xiii. 1-18.

5. Blasphemy. Lev. xxiv. 10-16.

6. False Prophesying. Deut. xviii. 20-22.

7. Witchcraft. Lev. xx. 27.

8. Adultery. Deut. xxii. 13-22.

9. Rape of Betrothed or Married Woman. Deut. xxii. 23-29.

10. Whoredom. Deut. xxii. 13-21; Lev. xxi. 9.

11. Incest. Lev. xx. 11, 12, 14.

12. Sodomy. Lev. xx. 13.

13. Bestiality. Lev. xx. 15, 16.

14. Smiting or Cursing a Parent. Ex. xxi. 15, 17.

15. Stubborn Rebellion against Father. Deut. xxi. 18-21.

16. Rebellion against the Judges. Deut. xvii. 8-13.

17. Swearing Away a Man's Life. Deut. xix. 16-21.

• Why so many? [In Great Britain two hundred and fifty years [121] ago there were one hundred and forty.]
• What was the mode of execution?

§ II. MANSLAUGHTER.

1. The Cities of Refuge. Num. xxxv. 9-15; Deut. xix. 1-13.

• Who inhabited these cities? xxxv. 6.
• Who the avenger of blood? Deut. xix. 6, 12, cf. Gen. ix. 5, 6, etc.

2. How Manslaughter Was Distinguished from Murder. Num. xxxv. 16-25.

• How in our laws?
• How did the congregation judge? 24, cf. Deut. xix. 12.

3. Further Rights of the Avenger. Num. xxxv. 26-29.

• Why at death of the high priest? 28.
• What the advantage of this system?

§ III. OF MAIMING. Ex. xxi. 18, 19, 22-27; Lev. xxiv. 17-22.

1. Disabling a Man. Ex. xxi. 18, 19.

2. Injuring a Pregnant Woman. 22-25.

3. Maim of a Bondman. 26, 27.

4. General Law of Maiming. Lev. xxiv. 17-22.

• Modern penalties?

§ IV. OTHER CRIMES AND PENALTIES. Ex. xxii. 1-15;
Num. xxxv. 31-34; Deut. xix. 14; xxi. 1-9; xxv. 1-3.

1. Theft. Ex. xxii. 1-4.

• Why the difference in the ratio of restitution?
• Suppose it was some other animal or property?
• Why restore so much? [122]

2. Breach of Trust. 7-15.

3. Trespass by a Beast or by Fire. 5, 6.

4. Removing Landmarks. Deut. xix. 14.

5. The Limit of the Scourge. Deut. xxv. 1-3.

• For what offenses inflicted? 2.
• Actual number of stripes? Cf. II. Cor. xi. 24.
• Why?
• Heathen laws?

6. Inquest over the Dead. Deut. xxi. 1-9.

• Who to do the measuring? 2.
• Purpose of this rite?

7. Pardon Prohibited. Num. xxxv. 31-34.

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CHAPTER VI.

MILITARY AND JUDICIAL LAWS.

1. Exemptions from Military Service. Deut. xx. 1-20; xxiv. 5.

• Why these?

2. Conduct of Sieges. 10-20.

• Why slay those who resist? xx. 13.
• Why spare fruit-trees? xx. 19.
• What use for trees in a siege?
• Who declared war and made peace?

3. League with Canaanites Forbidden. Deut. vii. 1-5.

4. The Judiciary. Deut. xvi. 18-20; xxiv. 8-13.

• By whom were the city judges appointed? xvi. 18.
• Who made appeals to the higher court? xvii. 8, 9.
• Meaning of "the judge that shall be in those days"? See Book of Judges.

5. Who Might Be Made King. 14, 15. [123]

• By whom to be chosen? 15, cf. I. Sam. x. 24.
• Why not a foreigner?
• Point in the question of the Pharisees? Matt. xxii. 17.

6. Regal Splendor Forbidden. 16, 17.

• Why?

7. The Law To Govern the King. 18-20.

• Was the king to be a law-maker?
• Was there a legislative body?
• Was there a central government? [124]

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