26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-36)Observe here, I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in that case, lest the tree and fruit be destroyed together, Exod. 21:22 , 23 . Women with child, who are thus taken under the special protection of the law of God, if they live in his fear, may still b…
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