Exodus 21:1
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
2 If 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.
3 If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
- KJV
- Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
- WEB
- “Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
- ASV
- Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
- DARBY
- And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
- BLB
- [“] And these [are] the judgments that you shall set before their faces:
- ÅB
- Dette er de lover som du skal legge fram for dem:
- OTB
- «Dette er de lovene du skal legge frem for dem:
- B1930
- Dette er de lover som du skal legge frem for dem:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:20
In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
Read in contextExodus 24:3–4
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.”
Read in contextPsalms 147:19
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
Read in contextMatthew 28:20
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Read in contextLeviticus 20:22
You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Read in contextNehemiah 10:29
hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:37
You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
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