H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 21 photographed pages 49–50
Exodus 21 begins the applied judgments of the Book of the Covenant. The chapter does not present arbitrary case law; it works out the principles of the Decalogue in servitude, family protection, violence, bodily injury, property hazards and foreseeable negligence.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 20 photographed pages 48–49
Exodus 20 gives the covenant’s foundational “words.” The order matters: “I am Yahweh thy God, which have brought thee out” precedes the commandments. Israel does not earn redemption by keeping the law; the law defines the response of a people already delivered from bondage.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 19 photographed pages 46–48
Israel has been redeemed from Egypt and educated in dependence; now the nation is brought to Sinai to enter covenant relationship with Yahweh. The movement is deliberately relational: Yahweh did not merely bring Israel out from Pharaoh; He says that He “brought you unto myself.”
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 18 photographed pages 45–46
Exodus 18 combines testimony and administration. Jethro hears what Yahweh has done, rejoices, blesses Yahweh and joins in sacrifice and fellowship. The following day he sees Moses attempting to carry every judicial matter personally and advises a graded structure of qualified helpers.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 17 photographed pages 44–45
Exodus 17 joins two crises that answer the same underlying question: “Is Yahweh among us, or not?” First, there is no water at Rephidim; Yahweh stands before Moses at the rock and provides water. Then Amalek attacks the weary nation; Israel discovers that active battle must remain dependent upon Yahweh’s sustaining power.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 16 photographed pages 40–44
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 15 photographed pages 39–40
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally Exodus 14 photographed pages 37–39
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally the Exodus 13 photographed pages
Exodus 13 teaches the redeemed nation how to remember and live out deliverance. The spared firstborn now belong to Yahweh; redemption produces consecration.
H. P. Mansfield Bible notes — checked and arranged in verse-by-verse Expositor style
Source: HPB 02-Gen42-Lev11.pdf, principally the Exodus 12 photographed pages
Exodus 12 is the central Passover chapter. Judgment threatens the firstborn throughout Egypt, and Israel too must respond to a divinely appointed sign: the lamb is selected, its blood applied, the meal eaten in readiness, and the household remains inside the place of safety.
