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Exodus 21

Exodus 21 begins the covenant judgments that apply the principles given at Sinai to Israel’s social life. The chapter addresses Hebrew servants, marriage protections, murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, assaults, injuries, harm to pregnant women, proportional justice, treatment of servants, dangerous animals, and negligence. These laws regulate a fallen society by assigning responsibility, limiting retaliation, protecting vulnerable people, and distinguishing intentional violence from accidental harm.

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Exodus 21 begins the covenant judgments that apply the principles given at Sinai to Israel’s social life. The chapter addresses Hebrew servants, marriage protections, murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, assaults, injuries, harm to pregnant women, proportional justice, treatment of servants, dangerous animals, and negligence. These laws regulate a fallen society by assigning responsibility, limiting retaliation, protecting vulnerable people, and distinguishing intentional violence from accidental harm.

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Verses 1–11Laws concerning Hebrew servantsVerses 12–17Laws concerning violent crimesVerses 18–27Laws concerning injuriesVerses 28–36Laws concerning dangerous oxen
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1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before…2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall…3If he came in by himself, he shall go out…4If his master have given him a wife, and she…5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my…6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he…7And if a man sell his daughter to be a…8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her…9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he…10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment,…11And if he do not these three unto her, then…12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall…13And if a man lie not in wait, but God…14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to…15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall…16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or…17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall…18And if men strive together, and one smite another with…19If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff,…20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid,…21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall…22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so…23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life…24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot…25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.26And if a man smite the eye of his servant,…27And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his…28If an ox gore a man or a woman, that…29But if the ox were wont to push with his…30If there be laid on him a sum of money,…31Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a…32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant;…33And if a man shall open a pit, or if…34The owner of the pit shall make it good, and…35And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die;…36Or if it be known that the ox hath used…