Exodus 21:1

Exodus 21:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
• New International Version (NIV)“These are the laws you are to set before them:
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:

Context of Exodus 21:1

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them: 2“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything. 3If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

Exodus 21:1 word by word

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּשִׂ֖ים לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• the judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• which thou shalt setשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440

Cross-references for Exodus 21:1

• Leviticus 18:5Keep my statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am the Lord.
• Leviticus 19:37Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the Lord.”
• Leviticus 20:22“You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
• Numbers 35:24the assembly is to judge between the person who kills someone and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
• Deuteronomy 5:1Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.
• Deuteronomy 6:20“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
• 1 Kings 6:12“As for this temple you are building — if you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep all my commands by walking in them, I will fulfill my promise to you, which I made to your father David.
• 2 Chronicles 19:10For every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities — whether it regards differences of bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, or judgments — you are to warn them, so they will not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath will not come on you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
• Nehemiah 9:13You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions, and good statutes and commands.
• Nehemiah 10:29join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the Lord our Lord.
• Psalms 147:19He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgments to Israel.
• Ezekiel 20:11Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them — the person who does them will live by them.
• Malachi 4:4“Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
• Exodus 19:7After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
• Exodus 24:3Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.”
• Deuteronomy 4:5Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess.

Commentaries on Exodus 21:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Now 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Judgments - i. e. decisions of the law.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Laws respecting servants. (1-11) Judicial laws. (12-21) Judicial laws. (22-36) Verses 1-11 The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1The terms of the covenant are now expanded. The first section in 21:1–23:19 gives specific examples of the general principles stated in 20:3–17. The commitments to which God bound himself if the Israelites kept their side of the covenant are stated in 23:20–33. This passage also includes the blessings for obedience.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-61. judgments--rules for regulating the procedure of judges and magistrates in the decision of cases and the trial of criminals. The government of the Israelites being a theocracy, those public authorities were the servants of the Divine Sovereign, and subject to His direction. Most of these laws here noticed were primitive usages, founded on principles of natural equity, and incorporated, with modifications and improvements, in the Mosaic code.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Exodus 21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings