Thingskept, and lent. EXODUS -X X I I. 14 which is torne, hee !hall not pay. And when a man {hall borrow night of his neighbour, and it be broken, or die, the owner thereof 15 'being not with it,paying he flial! pay. If the !owner thereof be with it, lice !hall not pay : if it be an hired thing ,. it came for his hire. 161 And when a mats hall entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lye with her, endowing 17 hee {hall endow her to himlelfe to wife. If her father refuting fhal l refufe to give her un- to him bee (hall weigh the money, accor- 18 ding to the dowrie of virgins. Thou !halt 19 not fuffera witch to live. Whofoever Beth with a beaft,:he !(tall be put to die the death. 20 Hee that (acrificeth to the gods, (hall be ut- terly deft toyed, except unto Iehovah, even 21 ro him onely. And aftrángerthou (hail not vexe, neither (halt thou oppreffe him : for yee were ftrangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye (hall not afflict any widow or fatherleffe child. If of liCin,g thou (halt afflict him,fure- ly if crying hee (hall cry unto me, hearing I 24 will heare his cry. And my anger fhall wax hot, and I will kill you with the (word: and your wives (ball bewidowes, and your fons 25 fiitherleffe. If thou lend money to my peo- ple, to the poore man with thee, thou (halt not be to him as an exacting creditor : yee 26 (hall not lay upon him biting ufury. If for a pledge thou take to pledge thy neighbours raiment , thou Malt return it unto him 27 before the Sunne goeth downe. For that is -his covering, that only; that is his raiment for his skin : wherein (hall he fleepe ? And it (hall be, when he crieth unto me , then I 28 will heare, for I am gracious. Thou (halt not revile the gods, and the ruler of thy people a 9 thou (halt not curfe. Thy full-ripe fruit and thy liquor thou (halt not delay: the fiat- borne of thy Tonnes (halt thou give unto me. 3 o So (halt thou doe with thine oxe, and with thy (beepe : {even dayes it (hall be with his mother; in the eighth day thou (halt give it 3! untome. And yee (hall be unto memen of holineffe: and yee(hall not eat fe(h torne in the field ; yee {hall calf it to the doge. Annotations. Sheepe] or a lambe ;a young Ibeepe, ór young goat: for the Hebrew word comprehendeth both, Exod,, 2.3. Deut.14.4. five oxen] or, five of the herd, for an met and foursof the flodte for a fheepe: The Hebrew differeth in word, but the Greeke version keepeth the fame words here,that were before.This Law was, if the oxe were killed or fold: but if it were found in his band alive, bee paid Kit two for one, v.4. neither was it for any other theft, than of the oxe and {beep : for all o- ther , the theefepaid but the double : as the He- brew canons plainly expreffe, Maimonÿ,treat. of Theft, Chap.x. Se&. 6. Ent'thefe, becautè of the profit, tire , and fervice which the owners might have of them, (and in particular,for facrifices to God, which might not be with any other hearts) were to be paid five and fourefold. And as the theft was bolder, and the lode greater of an oxe, than of a (heepe; fo the punifhmentwas more. Verf. 2. in the digging through] that is, digging z (or breaking) through an hotife ; as Mama 4.43 or,in the bole dogged; and fo ent ring by the breach. By this the Hebrewes underhand all other indi- re& wayes , by which the theefe may enter , but this is fpecitied , becauf it is the may of molt thieves ; to enter by digging tbrough in the night..11 ?aimonv treat. of Theft, chap.9 felt 8, no bloods fir him] that is,none (hail be put to death for killing that theefe. Or it may be read thus", bloods ((hall be) tubim, meaning to the killer of the theefe, bee fhali not have murder imputed to him , tò the phrafe is uCed in Numbers z 5. 37. The Hebrew Do&ors explaine it thus ; If the mailer of the houfe,or any otherman kill him, they are gttiltl : yea it is freefor any to kill him, either on the Sorbing day or on the Sabbath day, with any death that they can pu him to, &c. And there f re dab the Law permit this ? cauf it is the manner of fuch, that if the ratifier of the hassle* fbould withfland , and hinder them , tog will kill him. Andit is found , that bee which comet into hii neighbors house to fieale , la as bee that puo'ketb ha neighbour to kill him. Such a one therefore may bee killed, be bee great or fmall, man or woman. Maimony, treat. of Thefe,chap, 9. fe &.7.9. Verf.3 . rifn upon him] if it be cleare day w hen 3 the theefe breakethin, who fokilleth him , his blood (hall be (lied therefore. For the Sterne, the Chaldee paraphraut tranflateth, the ye of reitneffès, But Maimony (in the forefaid place, Self, i o.) gi- veththis Celle; If the matter be ckare to the mafler of the bout, that this thetf will not loll him, andthat be commeth not but to fiealegoods,it it unlawfull to kill him : and if be kill him, he is a man-fl tyer, of it is written, IF THE SUN BE R I S E N V V O N H I M; if the thing bee cleere at the Sistine unto thee that heir at peace with thee, thou {halt not kill him. he] the tbeefe, (hall direly pay therefore kill him not. But the Greeke verhon referreth it to the (layer, that he (hall pay, that is, be pat to death for him. he (halt be fld]for a ferrant by the Magiftrate: fee Exodus 21.2. &c. And in the Iewi(h canons it is' explained thus: If bee have nothini, neither move-, able goods nor immoveable, the ludger doe fill him,. and give hisprice f r the dommage, And they fill him not but to an Ifraelite, or Proselyte. Hee is not to be fold publi ael , &e. of flaves are fold, (at it is written, Leviticus 25. 42. T hey (ball not be fldouith the fait of a bond -man) but privately, and by way of honour , Mammy treatife of Theft, chaP.3. Se&. I I. and treat. of Servants, chap.!. Se&.3.5. for his tl ft]for the principal], or thing {toilen : and notbeef ú fold, five for the 'principall: hut the dauble,or paying of orce or five for one. H h tee 8s
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