Exodus 21:1

Good News Translation

"Give the Israelites the following laws:

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.

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.

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 "Give the Israelites the following laws: ² If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years. In the seventh year he is to be set free without having to pay anything. ³ If he was unmarried when he became your slave, he is not to take a wife with him when he leaves; but if he was married when he became your slave, he may take his wife with him. ⁴ If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man is to leave by himself. ⁵ But if the slave declares that he loves his master, his wife, and his children and does not want to be set free, ⁶ then his master shall take him to the place of worship. There he is to make him stand against the door or the doorpost and put a hole through his ear. Then he will be his slave for life. ⁷ "If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are. ⁸ If she is sold to someone who intends to make her his wife, but he doesn't like her, then she is to be sold back to her father; her master cannot sell her to foreigners, because he has treated her unfairly. ⁹ If a man buys a female slave to give to his son, he is to treat her like a daughter. ¹⁰ If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before.

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 I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants."

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:21
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."

Genesis 18:10
One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and from heaven the angel of God spoke to Hagar, "What are you troubled about, Hagar? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy crying.

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy as he grew up; he lived in the wilderness of Paran and became a skillful hunter.

Genesis 50:24
He said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Exodus 3:16
Go and gather the leaders of Israel together and tell them that I, the Lord , the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to you. Tell them that I have come to them and have seen what the Egyptians are doing to them.

Exodus 4:31
They believed, and when they heard that the Lord had come to them and had seen how they were being treated cruelly, they bowed down and worshiped.

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.