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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.
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Deut. 6:1• 1And these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land whereunto ye pass over to possess it, (Deut. 6:1)

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• 5And ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, by which the man that doeth them shall live: I [am] Jehovah.
 26But ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, and shall not do any of all these abominations, —the homeborn and the stranger that sojourneth among you (Lev. 18:5,26)
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Lev. 19:37• 37And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 19:37)
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Lev. 20:22• 22And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein vomit you not out. (Lev. 20:22)
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Num. 35:24• 24then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments; (Num. 35:24)
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Num. 36:13• 13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded through Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan of 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 ordinances, 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• 20When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? (Deut. 6:20)
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1 Kings 6:12• 12As to this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and practice mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then will I perform my word as to thee which I spoke unto David thy father; (1 Kings 6:12)
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2 Chron. 19:10• 10And what cause so ever comes to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against Jehovah, 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• 13And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
 14And thou madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant. (Neh. 9:13‑14)
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Neh. 10:29• 29joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which had been given by Moses the servant of God, and to keep and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; (Neh. 10:29)
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Psa. 147:19• 19He showeth his word to Jacob,{HR}His statutes and his judgments to 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.
 25And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live; (Ezek. 20:11,25)
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Mal. 4:4• 4Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and ordinances. (Mal. 4:4)
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Ex. 19:7• 7And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which Jehovah had commanded him. (Ex. 19:7)
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Ex. 24:3‑4• 3And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah hath said will we do.
 4And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.
 45these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances that Moses declared to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt, (Deut. 4:5,8,14,45)
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Deut. 6:20• 20When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? (Deut. 6:20)
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Matt. 28:20• 20teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, I am with you all the days, until the completion of the age. (Matt. 28:20)
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1 Thess. 4:1• 1Further, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as also ye do walk, ye abound still 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)