Exodus 21:1
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.
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
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:20
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Read in contextExodus 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.
Read in contextPsalms 147:19
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
Read in contextMatthew 28:20
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Read in contextLeviticus 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.
Read in contextNehemiah 10:29
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Read in contextLeviticus 19:37
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
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