The laws of this chapter relate, I. To the eighth commandment, concerning theft , trespass by cattle , damage by fire , trusts , borrowing cattle , or money, Ex. 22:25. II. To the seventh commandment. Against fornication , bestiality, Ex. 22:19. III.

Here are the laws, I. Concerning theft, which are these:—1. If a man steal any cattle (in which the wealth of those times chiefly consisted), and they be found in his custody, he must restore double, Ex. 22:4. Thus he must both satisfy for the wrong and suffer for the crime.

These laws are, I. Concerning trusts, Ex. 22:7–13. If a man deliver goods, suppose to a carrier to be conveyed, or to a warehouse-keeper to be preserved, or cattle to a farmer to be fed, upon a valuable consideration, and if a special confidence be reposed in the person they are lodged with, in…

Here is, I. A law that he who debauched a young woman should be obliged to marry her, Ex. 22:16–17. If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her ; but the law here mentioned respects her as single.

Here is, I. A law against extortion in lending. 1. They must not receive use for money from any that borrowed for necessity , as in that case, Neh. 5:5 Neh. 5:7.