Commentators usually say that the laws dealing with the emancipation of the Hebrew slaves, as well as the law of the land resting during the sabbat…

When they cut the calf in twain ... —The passage is interesting, as showing the survival of one of the oldest rites of Patriarchal…

He pursues the same subject: that perjury would not go unpunished. But here the manner of making an oath is described: they cut a calf into two…

And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant , &c.] The covenant the king, princes, and all the people made…

A Jew should not be held in servitude for more than seven years. This law they and their fathers had broken. And when there was some hope that the …

1. Here, he threatens those who transgressed.

   1. First, he speaks of the guilt of their fathers when he speaks of the covenant…