READING 1: 21:10-21 (12 p'sukim)
READING 2: 21:22-22:7 (9 p'sukim)
The case (and curse) of a man put on a tree
TARGUMS
his dead body shall not remain upon the beam, but he shall be certainly buried on the same day; for it is execrable before God to hang a man, but that his guilt gave occasion for it; and because he was made in the image of God, you shall bury him at the going down of the sun, lest wild beasts abuse him, and lest you overspread your land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess, with the dead bodies of criminals.
qll verb C qll vb. a/a to be light G 1 to be light Com. --(a) to be made light of Sam, JBA. --(b) to be lenient Gal. 2 to be swift Syr. 3 to vanish Syr. --(a) to be lacking Syr. --(b) to abate PTA. 4 to be little, few, unimportant Sam. 5 to curse Gal. D 1 to lighten Com. --(a) to alleviate Sam. --(b) to make a lenient ruling Gal. 2 to revile Syr. 3 to curse OfA-Pers, Gal, Sam. C 1 to make something lighter, remove a burden JLAtg, Syr, LJLA. --(a) to act in a lax manner Gal. --(b) to alleviate Sam, JBA. 2 to treat lightly Gal, JBAg. --(a) to rule leniently JBA. (a.1) to exonerate Syr. --(b) to degrade, dishonor JLAtg, Sam. (b.1) w. ܥܠ : to scorn Syr. --(c) to overcome Syr. --(d) ܥܲܠ : to despise Syr. 3 to hasten Syr. 4 to curse JLAtg, Gal, Sam, LJLA. Dt 1 to abate, become diminished PTA. --(a) to be made light, alleviated Syr. 2 to be despised Syr. 3 to be cursed Sam. ethpolal, ethpay/wcel 1 אתקולל : to abate, become diminished LJLA. quad T 1 to be spoiled Sam.
RELATED CROSS REFERENCES
Numbers 25:1–5 (LEB)
1 When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute themselves with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods. 3 So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and Yahweh became angry with Israel. 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel.” 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor.”
And the Word of the Lord said to Mosheh, Take all the chiefs of the people and set them for a Sanhedrin before the Lord, and let them hang all who are worthy of death; and at sunset take down their bodies and bury them, that so may be averted the strong anger of the Lord from Israel.
Numbers 25:4 (NET)
4 The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.”
Numbers 25:4 (ESV)
4 And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”
1 Samuel 31:9–13 (LEB)
9 So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent messengers around in the land of the Philistines to proclaim victory in the temples of their idols and to the people. 10 And they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreth, and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan. 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all of the valiant men set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. 13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
English
READING 3: 22:8-23:7 (29 p'sukim)
READING 4: 23:8-24 (17 p'sukim)
Do not commit adultery and the battlefield.
READING 5: 23:25-24:4 (6 p'sukim)
There is an added emphasis in the Targum on the children she will bear.
לֵית לֵיהּ רְשׁוּת לְבַעֲלָהּ קַמָּאָה דְפַטְרָהּ מִן שֵׁירוּיָא לִמְתוֹב לְמִסְבָּהּ לְמֶהֱוֵי לֵיהּ לְאִנְתּוּ מִן בָּתַר דְּאִיסְתְּאָבַת אֲרוּם מְרַחֲקָא הִיא קֳדָם יְיָ וְלָא מְרַחֲקִין בְּנָהָא דְתֵלִיד מִנֵּיהּ וְלָא תְחַיֵּיב חוֹבַת מוֹתָנָא יַת אַרְעָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן יָהֵיב לְכוֹן אַחְסָנָא
it shall not be in the power of the first husband who dismissed her at the beginning to return and take her to be with him as his wife, after that she hath been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord: for the children whom she might bear should not be made abominable, or the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit become obnoxious to the plague.
The children being pointed out demonstrates that the meturgeman was also aware of the 7th commandment's emphasis not only on the relationship of the husband and wife, but the TELOS of the relationship of the husband and wife: godly seed.
The Rabbi Yeshua and his reading of this text.
Matthew 19:1–12 (LEB)
1 And it happened that when Jesus had finished these statements, he went away from Galilee and came into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. 2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3 And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause. 4 And he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female 5 and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.” 7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a document—a certificate of divorce—and to divorce her?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this. 9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” 10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!” 11 But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this saying but those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born as such from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”
pay attention to how Rabbi Yeshua answers the question regarding that which is permitted (that which is loosed versus that which is bound). His answer first employs the Torah. He regards a question concerning whether or not an action is permitted as a question of Torah. He doesn't cite an ecstatic prophetic experience. He doesn't appeal to things he's heard or seen in prayer. He cites the Torah.
(27) And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
READING 6: 24:5-13 (9 p'sukim)
READING 7: 24:14-25:19 (28 p'sukim)