CHAPTER VL . .417 'Abney and cattle. -9. The birds andbeasts.-10. The first-born of all things.-11. The maintanance of the levites and.priests.-- 12. The care of the bodies and lives of men. 4. Q. What were some of the more peculiar laws about war and peace? A. That they should,make no peace with the seven nations of Canaan, but that they should destroy them utterly ; and that when they went to war, every soldier who was afraid might go home ; Deut. vii. 1 -3. Deut. xx. 8. W 5. Q. hat were some of their peculiar laws about hus- bands and wives? A. That a man should marry his brother's widow if his brother died childless ; and that men were permit- ted to put away their wives by ^ writing of divorce ; Deut. xxv. 5. Dent. xxiv. 1. And that adultery was to be punished with death ; 'Lev. xx..10. 0. Q. What were some of their special laws about parents and children ? A. The first-born' seawas to have a.dohble por- tion ; and that any child who smote or cursed his father or his mother, or was obstinately rebellious and incorrigible, was to be put to death; Deut. xxi. 17-21. Ex, xxi. 15, 17. 7. Q. What are some of their special laws -about masters and servants ? A.' Any servant might go free if his master had tnaimed.him ; and an Israelitisb servant, though he were bought with money, shall go out free for nothing in the seventh year : and if he will not go out free, his master shall. bore his eàr through on the door-post with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever ; Ex. xxi. 2 -6, 26, 27. Note. This word for ever signifies till the year of jubilee, for all servants or slaves, who were Hebrews were then to have their freedom, and return to their own lands and possessions in their own tribe. See Lev. xxv. 29-42. And this is the best vvay of reconciling Ex. xxi. 2, 6, with Lev. xxv. 40, 54. where one text saith, the servant shall go out free in the seventh year, and another in the year of jubilee, and the third saith, he shall serve for ever. 8. Q. What special laws had they relating to their food? A. That they should cat no blood, nor the fat of the kidneys, nor any thing that died of itself, or was torn of wild beasts, .nor any of the beasts or birds or fishes which were pronounc- ed to be unclean Lev. xi. and xvii. ,Deut. xiv. 21. And therefore they would not eat with heathens, test they should taste unclean food. 9. Q. What were some of the laws relatitg to their cloth- ing? A. A man must.not wear the raiment of women, nor ä woman the raiment of men. They must wear no mixed gar- ment, made of Woollen and linen ; and they were required to make fringes in theborders of their garments, and put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue, that they might look upon it and remember to do the commandments of the Lord; Num. xv. 38, 39. Deut. xxii. 5, 11, 12.
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