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Gill's Exposition
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour,.... As the Egyptians ruled over the Israelites, and made them to serve, Exo 1:13; where the same word is used as here, and seems designed to put them in mind…
Barnes' Notes
Fear thy God - Yahweh was the Lord and Master of His people. To treat a Hebrew as a slave was therefore to interfere with the rights of Yahweh. Compare Rom 14:4.
Adam Clarke
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor - What is rigorous service? "Service which is not determined, and service whereof there is no need." This is the definition given by the Jews; but much more is…
We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty…
Prohibition of permanent servitude of one Israelite to another(H and P mixed, the former probably preponderating)
This case was to be subject to the operation of the law of Jubile, Moreover, the…
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