The laws which Moses had hitherto been repeating and urging mostly concerned the acts of religion and devotion towards God; but here he comes more fully to press the duties of righteousness between man and man. This chapter relates, I. To the sixth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” Deut. 19:1–13.

It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen. 9:6.

Here is a statute for the preventing of frauds and perjuries; for the divine law takes care of men’s rights and properties, and has made a hedge about them. Such a friend is it to human society and men’s civil interest. I. A law against frauds, Deut. 19:14. 1.