Exodus 21:1

Easy-to-Read Version

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

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:

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

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.

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 Then God said to Moses, "These are the other laws that you will give to the people: ² "If you buy a Hebrew slave, then that slave will serve for only six years. After six years, he will be free, and he will have to pay nothing. ³ If he is not married when he becomes your slave, when he becomes free, he will leave without a wife. But if the man is married when he becomes your slave, then he will keep his wife at the time he is made free. ⁴ If the slave is not married, the master can give him a wife. If that wife gives birth to sons or daughters, she and her children will belong to the master. After the slave is finished with his years of service, he will be made free. ⁵ "But if the slave decides that he wants to stay with the master, he must say, ‘I love my master. I love my wife and my children. I will not become free—I will stay.' ⁶ If this happens, the master will bring the slave before God. The master will take the slave to a door or the wooden frame around the door and pierce the slave's ear using a sharp tool to show that the slave will serve that master for all his life. ⁷ "A man might decide to sell his daughter as a slave. If this happens, the rules for making her free are not the same as the rules for making the men slaves free. ⁸ If the master who chose her for himself is not pleased with her, then he can sell the woman back to her father. If the master broke his promise to marry her, he loses the right to sell her to other people. ⁹ If the master promised to let the slave woman marry his son, he must treat her like a daughter, not like a slave. ¹⁰ "If the master marries another woman, he must not give less food or clothing to the first wife. And he must continue to give her what she has a right to have in marriage.

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. I will give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many new nations. Kings of nations will come from her."

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, I said that your wife Sarah will have a son. You will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him that will continue forever with all his descendants.

Genesis 17:21
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son who Sarah will have. He will be born at this same time next year."

Genesis 18:10
Then one of them said, "I will come again in the spring. At that time your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening in the tent and heard these things.

Genesis 18:14
But is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will come again in the spring, just as I said I would, and your wife Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.

Genesis 21:20
God continued to be with the boy while he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became a hunter. He learned to shoot a bow very well.

Genesis 50:24
When Joseph was near death, he said to his brothers, "My time to die is almost here. But I know that God will take care of you and lead you out of this country. God will lead you to the land he promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Exodus 3:16
"Now go and call together the elders of the people. Tell them that Yahweh , the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—appeared to you. Give them this message from me: ‘I have been watching over you and have seen what people in Egypt have done to you.

Exodus 4:31
and they believed what they had heard. Then the Israelites understood that the Lord had seen their troubles and had come to help them. So they bowed down and worshiped God.

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.