Exodus 21:1
Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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Exodus 19:7And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Leviticus 18:5All of you shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:37Therefore shall all of you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Numbers 35:24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
Deuteronomy 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that all of you should do so in the land where all of you go to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4:14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that all of you might do them in the land where all of you go over to possess it.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:1
The laws recorded in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they are not accommodated to our constitution, especially in point of servitude, nor are the penalties annexed binding on us, yet they are of great use for the explanation of the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. Here are several enlargements, I. Upon the fifth commandment, which concerns particular relations. 1. The duty of masters towards their servants, their men-servants ( ver. 2-6 ), and the maidservants, ver.… Read the whole commentary →