KJV King James Version
Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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Exodus 21:1
Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
WEB World English Bible
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
ASV American Standard Version
Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And these are the judgments which thou dost set before them:
Surrounding context — 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.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
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Deuteronomy 4:14And 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.Deuteronomy 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?Exodus 24:3-4And 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.Psalm 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.Matthew 28:20Teaching 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.Deuteronomy 4:5Behold, 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.Deuteronomy 4:45These [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,Deuteronomy 4:8And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?Deuteronomy 5:31But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it.Ezekiel 20:25Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;2 Chronicles 19:10And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.1 Kings 6:12[Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: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.1 Thessalonians 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.Numbers 35:24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:Nehemiah 10:29They 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;Deuteronomy 6:1Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:Leviticus 20:22Ye 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.
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