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King James Version

Exodus 21:1

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Servant;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Justice;   Slave;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Economic Life;   Exodus, Book of;   Hammurabi;   Pentateuch;   Slave/servant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Exodus;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sin;   Slave, Slavery;   Stranger;   Ten Commandments;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Sabbatical Year;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law;   Gentile;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Now these are the ordinances which you shall 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.
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 judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

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
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
Genesis 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Exodus 3:16
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

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.


 
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