10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed.
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7 "If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. 5 "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,' 6 then his master must take him before the judges. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. Now our Lord here, does not find fault with the law of retaliation, as delivered by Moses, but with the false gloss of the Scribes and Pharisees who, as they interpreted it of pecuniary mulcts, as a compensation for the loss of a member, which sometimes exceeded all just and due bounds so they applied it to private revenge, and in favour of it: whereas this law did not allow of a retaliation to be made, by private persons, at their pleasure, but by the civil magistrate only.1 "These are the laws you are to set before them: 2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. Hagson replies, behold Samson said, "as they have done to me, so will I do to them" but Samson did not take their wives, and give them to others, he only rendered to them their reward: but Ben Zeta replies, if a poor man should smite, what must be his punishment? Hagson answers him, if a blind man should put out the eye of one that sees, what shall be done to him? as for the poor man, he may become rich, and pay, but the blind man can never pay.'' Ben Zeta answers him again, as he does, so shall it be done to him. Ben Zeta answers him, is it not written, in another place, "as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again?" To which Hagson replies, ( b), "in", is instead of ( le), "upon", or against and lo! the sense is, so shall the punishment be upon him.
And it is yet more difficult with respect to burning, wound, and stripe for should they be in a dangerous place the man might die but that is intolerable. Sandish, we cannot explain this verse according to its literal sense for if a man should smite the eye of his neighbour, and the third part of the light of his eye should depart, how will he order it, to strike such a stroke, as that, without adding or lessening? perhaps he will put out the whole light of his eye. The controversy about the sense of this law may be seen in a few words, as managed between R.
Not that he is to be hurt, as he has hurt his neighbour but inasmuch as he deserves to want a member, or to be hurt as he has done therefore he ought to pay the damage.''Īnd Josephus himself F5 says, that he must be deprived of that, which he has deprived another of, except he that has his eye put out is willing to receive money and which, he observes, the law allows of. From tradition it is learned, that this for, spoken of, is to be understood of paying money this is what is said in the law, "as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again". ``if a man cuts off his neighbour's hand, or foot, he is to be considered as if he was a servant sold in a market what he was worth then, and what he is worth now and he must pay the diminution which is made of his price as it is said, "eye for eye". ``He that puts out his neighbour's eye, must give him ( wnye) ( ymd), "the price of his eye", according to the price of a servant sold in the market and so the same of them all for, not taking away of the member is strictly meant.'' But the Jewish doctors generally understood it of paying a price equivalent to the damage done, except in case of life. put out a man's eyes, shall suffer the like. The Baithuseans, or Sadducees, among the Jews, took it in a literal sense, and so does Josephus, who says F2, he that shall blind, i.e. This is "lex talionis", the "law of retaliation" which, whether it is to be understood literally, or not, is a matter of question.
That is, to, or by them of old time, as is expressed in some of the foregoing instances,Īn eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,
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