These verses are closely connected in subject with the following chapter and introduce certain directions for the administration of justice and the…

Judges and officers. —A fresh section of the book, as read in the synagogues, begins with these words.

The land is now consi…

Judges and officers you shall make. I have placed this passage among the Supplements of the Fifth Commandment, because if it pleases God t…

Judges and officers you shall make for yourselves. Judges were fixed in the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, and those …

Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All partiality must be set aside, so that right is done to all, and wrong to none.

Care…