Exodus 21:1
New International Version
“These are the laws you are to set before them:

New Living Translation
“These are the regulations you must present to Israel.

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

Berean Standard Bible
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

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

New King James Version
“Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:

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

NASB 1995
“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

NASB 1977
“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Now these are the judgments which you are to set before them:

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

Christian Standard Bible
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And these are the judgments that you shall set before them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD gave Moses the following laws for his people:

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[The LORD continued,] "Here are the legal decisions to be used by the Israelites:

Good News Translation
"Give the Israelites the following laws:

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

Literal Standard Version
And these [are] the judgments which you set before them:

Majority Standard Bible
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

New American Bible
These are the ordinances you shall lay before them.

NET Bible
"These are the decisions that you will set before them:

New Revised Standard Version
These are the ordinances that you shall set before them:

New Heart English Bible
"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:

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

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Context
Laws for Servants
1“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them: 2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.…

Cross References
Exodus 24:3
When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: "All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do."

Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:14
At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Deuteronomy 6:1
These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,


Treasury of Scripture

Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.

the judgments

Leviticus 18:5,26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD…

Leviticus 19:37
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

which

Exodus 19:7
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.

Exodus 24:3,4
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 hath said will we do…

Deuteronomy 4:5,8
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it…

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7. For women servants
12. For manslaughter
16. For kidnappers
17. For cursers of parents
18. For smiters
22. For a hurt by chance
28. For an ox that gores
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XXI.

LAWS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS.

(1) These are the judgments.--"The laws" (Knobel), "the rights" (Keil), "the rules which shall guide judicial decisions" (Pool). The paraphrase alone gives the full meaning.

Verse 1. - These are the judgments. The term "judgment" applies most properly to the decisions of courts and the laws founded upon them. No doubt the laws contained in the "Book of the Covenant" were to a large extent old laws, which had been often acted on; but we should do wrong to suppose that there was nothing new in the legislation. The Hebrew mishphat is used with some vagueness. Vers 2-11. -

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
These
וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ (wə·’êl·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

are the ordinances
הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים (ham·miš·pā·ṭîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you are to set
תָּשִׂ֖ים (tā·śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

before them:
לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ (lip̄·nê·hem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face


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