Verse 1
Exodus 21:1
World English Bible
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“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אֵ֨לֶּה֙ הַ/מִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּשִׂ֖ים לִ/פְנֵי/הֶֽם
English Translation
And these are the judgments that you shall set before them.
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Chapter 21 Context
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“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
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“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free witho...
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If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out...
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall...
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But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out...
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then his master shall bring him to God (Elohim), and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost,...
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“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
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If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed....
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If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
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If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital r...
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If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
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“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
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but not if it is unintentional, but God (Elohim) allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a plac...
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If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my al...
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15
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
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“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to...
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“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is...
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if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he...
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“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be...
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Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property....
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22
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows...
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But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
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“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free fo...
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If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free...
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“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not...
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But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he ha...
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If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on hi...
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Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to h...
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If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to the...
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“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls int...
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the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall...
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“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divid...
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Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept i...
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