Exodus 21:1

1 “These are the laws you are to set before them:

Exodus 21:1 in Other Translations

KJV
1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
ESV
1 "Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
NLT
1 “These are the regulations you must present to Israel.
MSG
1 "These are the laws that you are to place before them:
CSB
1 "These are the ordinances that you must set before them:

Exodus 21:1 In-Context

1 “These are the laws you are to set before them:
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’

Cross References 1

  • 1. Exodus 24:3; Exodus 34:32; Deuteronomy 4:14; Deuteronomy 6:1
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