Exodus 21

Treated in 9 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 21:14 But if someone schemes against their neighbor and kills them by treachery, take the killer away even from my altar to be put to death. 3
  • 21:16 Whoever steals a person must be put to death, and it makes no difference whether the captive has been sold or is found still held. 3
  • 21:5 But suppose the slave says plainly, 'I love my master, my wife and my children. I will not leave as a free man.' 1
  • 21:6 his master shall bring him to God. Then he shall stand him by the door or the doorpost and drive an awl through his ear, and the man will serve him as a slave for life. 1
  • 21:13 But if the killing was not planned, and God allowed it to happen, I will set aside a place for you where the killer can flee. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 16 — The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him cites Exod. 21:13

    …sees very differently, and declares that He delivered him into the hand of the slayer (Exod. 21:13). In like manners who does not attribute the lot to the blindness of Fortune? Not so the…

  2. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    The Heavenly Things Themselves cites Exod. xxi. 14

    …tied (Psalm cxviii. 27), or on which the fugitive laid hold for sanctuary and shelter (Exod. xxi. 14), stood in the outer court. There were offered the sin offering, the burnt offering, and…

  3. The Key Teachings of F. B. Meyer · Ochorus Originals

    Willing to Be Made Willing cites EXODUS 21:5–6

    …and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. EXODUS 21:5–6 Meyer loved this. It meant that consecration is not a slave’s surrender but a lover’s…

  4. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Wasn’t Christianity Used to Defend Slavery? cites Exodus 21:16

    …man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession” (Exodus 21:16). That describes the Atlantic slave trade exactly. A runaway slave was not to be sent…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Exod 21: 14

    …neighbour, to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.’ Exod 21: 14. In the commandment, ‘Thou shalt do no murder,’ all sins are forbidden which lead to it…

  6. The Key Teachings of George Whitefield · Ochorus Originals

    Bethesda and Its Shadow cites EXODUS 21:16

    …a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. EXODUS 21:16 It cannot be said that he did not know better. In 1740 he had published an open letter…

  7. The Key Teachings of John Wesley · Ochorus Originals

    The Poor and the Slave cites EXODUS 21:16

    …a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. EXODUS 21:16 The last letter Wesley kept up the cause to the end. In February 1791, only days before…

  8. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Exod. 21.14

    …they might, with tears (Num. 14.36, 37, etc.). 178. As it is said in another place (Exod. 21.14), the man that sins presumptuously shall be taken from God’s altar, that he may die; even…

  9. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    An Ancient Hebrew Custom cites Exod. xxi. 6

    …of the relationship into which they had entered. "And he shall serve him forever" (Exod. xxi. 6). This custom was- ALLUDED TO BY THE PSALMIST (Psalm xl. 6). Living amid the routine of…