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Exodus 21

Ex. 21:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now these are the judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
which thou shalte set
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
them.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-4:  Laws for men servants.
5-6:  For the servant whose ear is bored.
7-11:  For women servants.
12-15:  For manslaughter.
16:  For stealers of men.
17:  For cursers of parents.
18-21:  For smiters.
22-27:  For a hurt by chance.
28-32:  For an ox that gores.
33-36:  For him that is an occasion of harm.
the judgments.
Lev. 18:5,26• 5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
(Lev. 18:5,26)
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Lev. 19:37• 37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord. (Lev. 19:37)
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Lev. 20:22• 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. (Lev. 20:22)
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Num. 35:24• 24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments: (Num. 35:24)
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Num. 36:13• 13These are the commandments and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. (Num. 36:13)
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Deut. 5:1,31• 1And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
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.
(Deut. 5:1,31)
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Deut. 6:20• 20And 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? (Deut. 6:20)
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1 Kings 6:12• 12Concerning 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: (1 Kings 6:12)
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2 Chron. 19:10• 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. (2 Chron. 19:10)
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Neh. 9:13‑14• 13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
14And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
(Neh. 9:13‑14)
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Neh. 10:29• 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; (Neh. 10:29)
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Psa. 147:19• 19He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. (Psa. 147:19)
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Ezek. 20:11,25• 11And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
25Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
(Ezek. 20:11,25)
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Mal. 4:4• 4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. (Mal. 4:4)
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Ex. 19:7• 7And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him. (Ex. 19:7)
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Ex. 24:3‑4• 3And 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.
4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
(Ex. 24:3‑4)
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Deut. 4:5,8,14,45• 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.
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?
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.
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,
(Deut. 4:5,8,14,45)
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Deut. 6:20• 20And 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? (Deut. 6:20)
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Matt. 28:20• 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. (Matt. 28:20)
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1 Thess. 4:1• 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. (1 Thess. 4:1)
 {v.1-11} We have (as we may observe by the way) a beautiful type (ch. 21) of the devotedness of Christ to the church and to His Father, and His love to us. Having served already faithfully His full service as man, during His lifetime, He would remain a servant even in death for the sake of the Father, the church, and His people. He made Himself a servant forever. (Compare John 13 for the present time, and Luke 12 even for glory). (Exodus 19-23 by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And these are the judgmentsa which thou shalt set before them.

JND Translation Notes

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Fixed ordinances.