Exodus 21:1

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““These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:”

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BSBPD

““These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“`And these <FI>are<Fi> the judgments which thou dost set before them:”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 21:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 19:7So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.
  2. Exodus 24:3When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
  3. Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
  4. Leviticus 18:26But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
  5. Leviticus 19:37You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
  6. Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
  7. Numbers 35:24then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
  8. Numbers 36:13These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  9. Deuteronomy 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
  10. Deuteronomy 4:8And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
  11. Deuteronomy 4:14At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  12. Deuteronomy 4:45These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,
  13. Deuteronomy 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
  14. Deuteronomy 5:31But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
  15. Deuteronomy 6:1These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
  16. Deuteronomy 6:20In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
  17. Deuteronomy 15:12If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
  18. 1 Kings 6:12“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
  19. 2 Chronicles 19:10For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
  20. Nehemiah 9:13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
  21. Nehemiah 10:29hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
  22. Psalms 147:19He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
  23. Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
  24. Ezekiel 20:25I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

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