Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Exodus 21:1
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Exodus21:1
CHAPTER 21
Ex 21:1-6. Laws for Menservants.
1. judgments--rules for regulating the procedure of judges and magistrates in the decision of cases and the trial of criminals. The government of the Israelites being a theocracy, those public authorities were the servants of the Divine Sovereign, and subject to His direction. Most of these laws here noticed were primitive usages, founded on principles of natural equity, and incorporated, with modifications and improvements, in the Mosaic code.
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