Exodus 21:1 "These are the laws you are to set before them:

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"These are the laws you are to set before them:

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

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the ordinances that you must set before them:"

International Standard Version
"These are the ordinances that you are to set before them.

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

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

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

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

Cross References

Exodus 24:3
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD has said will we do.

Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:14
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

Deuteronomy 6:1
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go to possess it:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

21:1-11 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 glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 21

Ex 21:1-6. Laws for Menservants.

1. 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.