Gíc./rthmtat".i,t twit/ i/% heforgotten(heafe. DEUTERoNOMI E XXIV. ring thou (halt reftore the pawne unto him when the Sunne goeth downe, that he may, lie downe in his raiment and blrffethee,and unto thee it (hall bee juftice before Jehovah thy God. 14 Thou (halt not fraudulently oppreffean hired fervant that is pobre and needy, achy brethren, or of thy ltranger which is in thy 15' land, within thy gates. In hisday thou (halt give his hire, and the Sun (hall not go down upon it, for lice is poore, and unto it he lif- tech up his foule, that he cry not againft thee unto Jehovah, and it be in thee a finne. 16 The father (hail not be put ro death for the children,and the children (hall not be put to death for the fathers : they (hall bee putto 17 death every man in his crane fin. Thou (halt not wreft the judgement of the ftranger,nor of the fatherle(fe:thou (halt not take pledg the garment of the widow. But thou (halt remember thatthou waft a fervant in Egypt, & Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence, therefore I command thee to doe this thins. 19 When thou reape(t thine harveft in thy field , and haft forgot a.Jheafe in the field, thou (halt not return to take i ; it (hall be for the (hanger, for the fatherleffe, and for the widow, that Jehovah thy God may bleffe 20 thee in all the worke of thine hinds. When thou beard} thine Olive-tree, thou (halt not goe over the boughes after thee; it (hall be for the ftranger, for the fatherleffe, and for 21 thewidow.When thou gathereft the grapes of thy vineyard , thou fhalt not gather the fingle grapes after thee ; it fhall bee for the fáranger;forthe fatherleffe, and for the wi- za dow. And thou (halt remember that thou waft a fervant in the land of Egypt, there- fore I command thee to doe this thing. Ió Annotations. R Feet h_r husband] that is, done an husbands 1U duty,llen with her: as theGreek tranflateth, dwelt together witb her. So Deut. z 1.13. For his mariage is fignified by the former phrafe, taken a wife, as is noted on Deut. 22. 13. grace] or, favour in his eies; in Greeke, grace belire him, that if he like her not. matter of nakednef ] or, the nakediteje of.any thing, that is the dil'co,e- ry of Come uncicane thing: or, by tranlplacing the words, anything of nakedne e, that is,of fhame and ignominy ; as the Greeke tranllateth,a fhame- fell (or uncomely) thing. This is thought of tome pot to be meant of adultery, for which the was to die if it were proved, Deut.z2.22. but of Conic (evil( thing in her conditions or a &ions , which difpleafed her husband.So the phrafe was ufed in Dcút.23.z4. for that which was uncle Andy and umfeemely. and be Thal write]underftand from the Cornier Centence,andifbee fhal/ write : for this is not a commandement, but a permilfion , as out Saviour faith Mafia hecauf of the hardnef of your hearts; fifferedyou to put away yotnr Wine: : but from tb: beginning it woe not fo , Matt. 19.8. So. after in verf3. And the latter man_hall hate her, tha is, if be (hag hate her ; for all is luppofition, and perntiffion, unti11y.4. where the is forbidden to her firft husband, But the Hebrewes miltooke this fora commandement, Matt.19.7 . and fo doe to this day, as is to be teem in their writings, wherin good and bad are mixed together thus; A man may not take a wife, and /cave a purpafe in him to divorce her, &c. She may not remain under him , and minder unto him, if be be purpofd to divorce ber, Aman may not put away bit firfi wife , except he bath fined in her the nalogdnef of fime thing : and it be- comes him not to be bofly to fend away hit ftrf wife; but the fiend, if be hate her , let him find her away. A woman :bat it of evil( conditions, and is not mode(!,' ar are the !tond daughters of If ael , it it commanded to put heraway. Maimony tom. 2. treat. of Di- vorces, chap. io. fia.z 1, zz. But the Lord the God ofliracl faith, that he hateth putting away, Mal. 2.16. And, Wbat God bath joynedtogetber lit no man put a frtnder, Matt. 19.6. bill of divorce- ment] or, libel! (booke) of euttiogoff; which the Greeke verlion ( approved by the Evangelifts, Matth.r 9.7.) called], alibellaf divorcement, or, of departing away, becaufe by it the woman was cut off from her husband , and deptarted from him and his honk. Of this the Hebrewes have many canons ; and the forme of this bill is in the Thal - mud in Gittin, chap. 9. and by Maimony in treat. of Divorces, chap.{. fEi. 12. fètdownc in thee¢ words 1 IN fah a day ofth&weeke, in fifth or fuck á day of the rnoncth N.infuck or finch aveer fi om the creation(ofthe world,) or from thè fupputation (of Alexander) after the account which wee are wont to count by ,bere in the place N. I.N.the fon ofN.afehe place N.(orifthere be any othername or furname which I have, or my fathers have had,er (which)myplace hash, or my fathers place have had) have voltsntari- ly,withthe willingneffe of my foule , without conflraint ,bothdifrrtiffed,andleft, ea. put away thee,even thee N.the daughter of N.ofthe city N. (or ifthos halt any other name Or furname; thou, or thy fathers, or thy place,or thy fathers place) which haft been my wife heretofore, but now I difmiffe.thee,and leave thee,ándput thee away,that thou male ft be free , and have power over thine atone foule, togot away,ts be marri- ed to any man whom thou wilt; and that no man be refufed ofthine hand,fcr my name, frronri this day and for aver. Andthus thon art lartvfull for any man ; and the{ is unto thee from met a Writing /,/7Iyarte/mJInai1n\A nett;!tHII now
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