Exodus 21:1

Chapter s 21-23 are an expansion of chapter 20.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judgments - i. e. decisions of the law.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 21:1 E. The Judgments. This is best taken as the heading of a fresh collection, The Judgments (p. 184), consisting of case-law, mainly a...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. Now these are the judgments. Both passages contain the same appointment, viz., that as to the Hebrews slavery must end at the seventh year...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. Now these are the judgments - There is so much good sense, feeling, humanity, equity,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Now these are the judgments— The subsequent divine laws are delivered in an irregular and interrupted method; most probably, because they were writ...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. Now these are the judgments, х hamishpaaTiym ( H4941 )] - the statutes, ord...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Book of the Covenant (continued) I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves. Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the M...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XXI. LAWS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS. (1) These are the judgments. — “The laws” (Knobel), “the rights” (Keil), “the rules which shall guid...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33 . With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (continued). PART II.--RIGHTS OF THE PERSON. Exodus 21:1-32 . The first words of God from Sinai had declared t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At this point we have certain laws which apply the principles of the Decalogue to life. The first movement has to do with the laws of the person. Thi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS For the better apprehension of the moral law before given in the second table of it, Moses enlargeth in this Chapter upon the particular pr...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now these are the judgments ,.... The judicial laws respecting the civil state of the people of Israel, so called because they are founded on justic...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. Ver. 1. Now these are the judgments, ] i.e., The judicial laws, fitly annexed to t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The first verse is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following Chapter s. Their government being purely a theocracy, that w...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

RESPONSIBILITIES OF MASTERS (vs.1-11) Moses is now given an expanded view of the law on Chapter s 21-23. Special duties of masters are first cons...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judicial Laws. B. C. 1491. 1 Now these...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

EXODUS CHAPTER 21 Law concerning bond-men or slaves, Exodus 21:1-5 . Servants bored through the ear, Exodus 21:6 . Ordinances for bond-women,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Further Covenant Provisions ( Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 ). Exodus 21:1 “Now these are the judgments that you will set before them.” Havi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 21:1 . Judgments.] Here begins the second part of “The Book of the Covenant” (ch. Exodus 24:7 ), the entire contents of...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 21:1 . These are the judgments. In this chapter we enter upon the fifty seven precepts of the civil law of the Hebrew nation. They are the...
The Biblical Illustrator

These are the Judgments. The judgments These judgments stood related to the second table of the Law, just as the regulations concerning the wor...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . I. Laws connected with the rights of persons ( Exodus 21:1-2 ). The regulations...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. These were special ordinances concerning the political commonwealth of the Jews. In the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Precepts Regulating the Master's Relation to Slaves
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

the judgments Leviticus 18:5 Leviticus 18:26 Leviticus 19:37 Leviticus 20:22 Numbers 35:24 Deuteronomy 5:1 Deuteronomy 5:31 Deuteronom...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The first verse is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following chapters. Their government being purely a theocracy; that...

¹ Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Related Commentaries of Exodus 21:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 21:1