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**men.** Hebrew, plural of ' *i* s *h* , or *'enosh.* App-14 .
**shall justify.** Compare [Deuteronomy 16:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/16/18) ; [Deuteronomy 17:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/8) . [Exodus 23:7](../../../kjv/exodus/23/7) . [Proverbs 17:15](../../../kjv/proverbs/17/15) .

**Forty stripes.** To ensure obedience to this law, tradition made the stripes 39, and gave three strokes with a thong of thirteen cords. Compare [2 Corinthians 11:24](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/11/24) .
**vile** = mean, or lightly esteemed.

See the Structure, "Threshing" for this verse in the book comments for Deuteronomy.
**not muzzle.** Animals generally muzzled in the East. Compare [1 Corinthians 9:9](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/9/9) . [1 Timothy 5:18](../../../kjv/1-timothy/5/18) .

**If brethren, &c.** Compare [Genesis 38:8](../../../kjv/genesis/38/8) . [Ruth 4:5](../../../kjv/ruth/4/5) , &c. [Matthew 22:24](../../../kjv/matthew/22/24) .[Mark 12:19](../../../kjv/mark/12/19) . [Luke 20:28](../../../kjv/luke/20/28) .
**stranger** = foreigner.

**put out** = blotted out.

**in the presence, &c.** [Ruth 4:11](../../../kjv/ruth/4/11) .
**loose his shoe.** Compare [Ruth 4:7](../../../kjv/ruth/4/7) , [Ruth 4:8](../../../kjv/ruth/4/8) .
**shoe** = sandal.

**divers weights.** Hebrew a stone and a stone. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), for any weight. App-6 .

**divers measures.** Hebrew an ephah and an ephah. Compare [Leviticus 19:35](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/35) , [Leviticus 19:36](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/36) . [Proverbs 11:1](../../../kjv/proverbs/11/1) ; [Proverbs 20:10](../../../kjv/proverbs/20/10) . See App-51 .

**in the land** = on the soil or ground.

**Remember.** Compare [Exodus 17:8-16](../../../kjv/exodus/17/8-16) . An event ordered to be written down,
**Amalek.** Name of a man, put for his posterity, by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 .

**blot out.** Fulfilled in the time of Esther in 462 B.C. See App-50 .
**remembrance.** Hebrew. *zekar* , not *zaka* r, males; as Joab seems to have understood it in 1Ki 11:15 , [1 Kings 11:16](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/16) .
**Amalek.** Compare [1 Samuel 15:2](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/2) , [1 Samuel 15:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/3) .[Numbers 24:20](../../../kjv/numbers/24/20) .

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