Four precepts evidently addressed to those in authority as judges:

1. To do justice to the poor. Comparing Exodus 23:6, and Exodus 23:…

The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…

By this law also, God exhorts His people to exercise the duties of humanity toward animals, so that they may be more disposed to assist on…

You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause .
] As the poor man was not to be favoured when his cause…

In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Everything in it is suited to the desired and avowed…