Exodus 21:1

Amplified Bible

"Now these are the ordinances (laws) which you shall set before the Israelites:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

King James Version
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Lexham English Bible
"And these are the regulations that you will set before them.

New Century Version
Then God said to Moses, "These are the laws for living that you will give to the Israelites:

New English Translation
"These are the decisions that you will set before them:

New American Standard Bible
"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

Legacy Standard Bible
"Now these are the judgments which you are to set before them:

Contemporary English Version
The Lord gave Moses the following laws for his people:

Complete Jewish Bible
"These are the rulings you are to present to them:

Darby Translation
And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then God said to Moses, "These are the other laws that you will give to the people:

English Standard Version
"Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.

George Lamsa Translation
NOW these are the judgments which you shall set before them.

Good News Translation
"Give the Israelites the following laws:

Christian Standard Bible®
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

Literal Translation
And these are the judgments which you shall put before them:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the lawes, that thou shalt laye before them.

American Standard Version
Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

Bible in Basic English
Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
These art the lawes whiche thou shalt set before them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

King James Version (1611)
Now these are the Iudgements which thou shalt set before them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

English Revised Version
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Berean Standard Bible
These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These ben the domes, whiche thou schalt sette forth to hem.

Young's Literal Translation
`And these [are] the judgments which thou dost set before them:

Update Bible Version
Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

World English Bible
"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

New King James Version
Deuteronomy 15:12-18">[xr] "Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:

New Living Translation
"These are the regulations you must present to Israel.

New Life Bible
"Now these are the Laws which you are to give them.

New Revised Standard
These are the ordinances that you shall set before them:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, these are the regulations which thou shalt put before them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Revised Standard Version
"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

THE MESSAGE
"These are the laws that you are to place before them:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

Contextual Overview

¹"Now these are the ordinances (laws) which you shall set before the Israelites:²"If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing. ³"If he came [to you] alone, he shall leave alone; if he came married, then his wife shall leave with him. ⁴"If his master gives him a wife, and she gives birth to sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave [your service] alone. ⁵"But if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not leave as a free man,' ⁶then his master shall bring him to God [that is, to the judges who act in God's name], then he shall bring him to the door or doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl (strong needle); and he shall serve him for life. ⁷"If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go free [after six years] as male servants do. ⁸"If she does not please her master who has chosen her for himself [as a wife], he shall let her be redeemed [by her family]. He does not have the authority to sell her to a foreign people, because he has been unfair to her. ⁹"If her master chooses her [as a wife] for his son, he shall act toward her as if she were legally his daughter. ¹⁰"If her master marries another wife, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her privilege as a wife.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the judgments: Leviticus 18:5, Leviticus 18:26, Leviticus 19:37, Leviticus 20:22, Numbers 35:24, Numbers 36:13, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 5:31, Deuteronomy 6:20, 1 Kings 6:12, 2 Chronicles 19:10, Nehemiah 9:13, Nehemiah 9:14, Nehemiah 10:29, Psalms 147:19, Ezekiel 20:11, Ezekiel 20:25, Malachi 4:4

which: Exodus 19:7, Exodus 24:3, Exodus 24:4, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:14, Deuteronomy 4:45, Deuteronomy 6:20, Matthew 28:20, 1 Thessalonians 4:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:32 - he gave Ezra 7:26 - whether it be Nehemiah 5:5 - we Psalms 19:9 - judgments Jeremiah 34:14 - At the Acts 7:38 - who

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
"I will bless her, and indeed I will also give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall name him Isaac (laughter); and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:21
"But My covenant [My promise, My solemn pledge], I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."

Genesis 18:10
He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.

Genesis 18:14
"Is anything too difficult or too wonderful for the LORD? At the appointed time, when the season [for her delivery] comes, I will return to you and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 21:17
God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from where he is [resting].

Genesis 21:20
God was with Ishmael, and he grew and developed; and he lived in the wilderness and became an [expert] archer.

Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob [to give you]."

Exodus 3:16
"Go, gather the elders (tribal leaders) of Israel together, and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, "I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD was concerned about the Israelites and that He had looked [with compassion] on their suffering, then they bowed their heads and worshiped [the LORD].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now these are the judgments,.... The judicial laws respecting the civil state of the people of Israel, so called because they are founded on justice and equity, and are according to the judgment of God, whose judgment is according to truth; and because they are such by which the commonwealth of Israel was to be judged or governed, and were to be the rule of their conduct to one another, and a rule of judgment to their judges in the execution of judgment and justice among them:

which thou shall set before them; besides the ten commands before delivered. They were spoken by God himself in the hearing of the people; these were delivered to Moses after he went up to the mount again, at the request of the people, to be their mediator, to be by him set before them as the rule of their behaviour, and to enjoin them the observance of them; in order to which he was not only to rehearse them, but to write them out, and set them in a plain and easy light before them: and though they did not hear these with their own ears from God himself, as the ten commands; yet, as they had the utmost reason to believe they came from him, and it was at their own request that he, and not God, might speak unto them what was further to be said, with a promise they would obey it, as if they had immediately heard it from him; it became them to receive these laws as of God, and yield a cheerful obedience to them; nor do we find they ever questioned the authority of them; and as their government was a Theocracy, and God was more immediately their King than he was of any other people, it was but right, and what might be expected, that they should have their civil laws from him, and which was their privilege, and gave them the preference to all other nations, Deuteronomy 4:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judgments - i. e. decisions of the law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

Laws concerning servants. They shall serve for only seven

years, 1, 2.

If a servant brought a wife to servitude with him, both should go

out free on the seventh year, 3.

If his master had given him a wife, and she bore him children, he

might go out free an the seventh year, but his wife and children

must remain, as the property of the master, 4.

If, through love to his master, wife, and children, he did not

choose to avail himself of the privilege granted by the law, of

going out free on the seventh year, his ear was to be bored to the

door post with an awl, as an emblem of his being attached to the

family for ever, 5, 6.

Laws concerning maid-servants, betrothed to their masters or to

the sons of their masters, 7-11.

Laws concerning battery and murder, 12-15.

Concerning men-stealing, 16.

Concerning him that curses his parents, 17.

Of strife between man and man, 18, 19;

between a master and his servants, 20, 21.

Of injuries done to women in pregnancy, 22.

The LEX TALIONIS, or law of like, 23-25.

for injuries done to servants, by which they gain the right of

freedom, 26, 27.

Laws concerning the ox which has gored men, 28-32.

Of the pit left uncovered, into which a man or a beast has

fallen, 33, 34.

Laws concerning the ox that kills another, 35, 36.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI

Verse Exodus 21:1. Now these are the judgments — There is so much good sense, feeling, humanity, equity, and justice in the following laws, that they cannot but be admired by every intelligent reader; and they are so very plain as to require very little comment. The laws in this chapter are termed political, those in the succeeding chapter judicial, laws; and are supposed to have been delivered to Moses alone, in consequence of the request of the people, Exodus 20:19, that God should communicate his will to Moses, and that Moses should, as mediator, convey it to them.