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Exodus Chapter 21

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Exodus 21 records the early law of the Israelites concerning injury and compensation, stating that a person who causes bodily harm must make restitution to the injured. The chapter also introduces the principle of proportional justice, often summarized as “an eye for an eye,” emphasizing that each person must be held accountable for their actions. These teachings set the foundation for the community’s moral and legal order.

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(1) Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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Leviticus 18:5Leviticus 18:26Leviticus 19:37Leviticus 20:22Numbers 35:24Numbers 36:13Deuteronomy 5:1Deuteronomy 5:31Deuteronomy 6:20I Kings 6:12II Chronicles 19:10Nehemiah 9:13

(2) If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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Exodus 12:44Exodus 22:3Genesis 27:28Genesis 27:36Leviticus 25:39Leviticus 25:40Leviticus 25:41Leviticus 25:44II Kings 4:1Nehemiah 5:1Nehemiah 5:2Nehemiah 5:3

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Deuteronomy 15:12Jeremiah 34:14Jeremiah 34:9Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(3) If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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Deuteronomy 15:12Deuteronomy 15:13Deuteronomy 15:14

(4) If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
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Genesis 31:43Genesis 27:46Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55Genesis 24:27

(5) And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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Deuteronomy 15:16Deuteronomy 15:17Isaiah 26:13II Corinthians 5:14II Corinthians 5:15

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Luke 6:32Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18

(6) Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
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Exodus 21:22Exodus 12:12Exodus 18:21Exodus 18:22Exodus 18:23Exodus 18:24Exodus 18:25Exodus 18:26Exodus 22:8Exodus 22:9Exodus 22:28Numbers 25:5

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Ezekiel 41:3Luke 13:25Genesis 19:6Genesis 19:11Exodus 33:10Deuteronomy 15:17

(7) And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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Nehemiah 5:5Exodus 21:2Exodus 21:3

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Deuteronomy 5:14

(8) If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
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Genesis 28:8Judges 14:3I Samuel 8:6I Samuel 18:8Deuteronomy 20:7Deuteronomy 21:11Deuteronomy 21:12Deuteronomy 21:13Deuteronomy 21:14Exodus 8:29Judges 9:19Job 6:15

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Jeremiah 5:15

(9) And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(10) If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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I Corinthians 7:1I Corinthians 7:2I Corinthians 7:3I Corinthians 7:4I Corinthians 7:5I Corinthians 7:6

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Genesis 41:48

(11) And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
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II Kings 12:4

(12) He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
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Exodus 20:13Genesis 9:6Leviticus 24:17Numbers 35:16Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Numbers 35:19Numbers 35:20Numbers 35:21Numbers 35:22Numbers 35:23Numbers 35:24

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Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Jeremiah 44:25Ezekiel 3:18Ezekiel 33:8II Kings 7:4

(13) And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
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Numbers 35:11Numbers 35:22Deuteronomy 19:4Deuteronomy 19:5Deuteronomy 19:6Deuteronomy 19:11Micah 7:2I Samuel 24:4I Samuel 24:10I Samuel 24:18II Samuel 16:10Isaiah 10:7

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Psalms 139:7Proverbs 12:6

(14) But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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Numbers 15:30Numbers 15:31Deuteronomy 1:43Deuteronomy 17:12Deuteronomy 17:13Deuteronomy 18:22Deuteronomy 19:11Deuteronomy 19:12Deuteronomy 19:13I Kings 2:29I Kings 2:30I Kings 2:31

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Deuteronomy 19:5II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(15) And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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Deuteronomy 21:18Deuteronomy 21:19Deuteronomy 21:20Deuteronomy 21:21Deuteronomy 27:24Proverbs 30:11Proverbs 30:17I Timothy 1:9

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Luke 12:53Leviticus 20:9Jeremiah 44:25

(16) And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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Genesis 40:15Deuteronomy 24:7I Timothy 1:10Revelation 18:12Genesis 37:28Exodus 22:4

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Jeremiah 44:25

(17) And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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Leviticus 20:9Deuteronomy 27:16Proverbs 20:20Proverbs 30:11Proverbs 30:17Matthew 15:3Matthew 15:4Matthew 15:5Matthew 15:6Mark 7:10Mark 7:11

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Leviticus 20:9Luke 12:53Jeremiah 44:25Matthew 15:4Mark 7:10

(18) And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
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Exodus 21:22Exodus 2:13Deuteronomy 25:11II Samuel 14:6Exodus 21:20Numbers 35:16Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Numbers 35:19Numbers 35:20Numbers 35:21Numbers 35:22

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Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:23Isaiah 28:16Numbers 35:18II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4

(19) If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
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II Samuel 3:29Zechariah 8:4

(20) And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
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Exodus 21:26Exodus 21:27Deuteronomy 19:21Proverbs 29:19Isaiah 58:3Isaiah 58:4Genesis 9:6Numbers 35:30Numbers 35:31Numbers 35:32Numbers 35:33Genesis 4:15

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Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Numbers 35:16Numbers 35:21Jeremiah 44:25Ezekiel 3:18

(21) Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
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Leviticus 25:45Leviticus 25:46

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II Kings 12:4

(22) If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
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Exodus 21:30Deuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 22:18Deuteronomy 22:19

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Romans 7:2II Samuel 12:18II Kings 4:34I Corinthians 13:11Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11

(23) And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
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Numbers 35:31

(24) Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
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Exodus 21:26Exodus 21:27Leviticus 24:19Leviticus 24:20Deuteronomy 19:21Judges 1:6Judges 1:7I Samuel 15:33Matthew 5:38Matthew 5:39Matthew 5:40Matthew 7:2

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Deuteronomy 19:21Leviticus 24:20Matthew 5:38Luke 6:42Luke 11:34Deuteronomy 28:56

(25) Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
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Leviticus 6:9Leviticus 13:28II Chronicles 21:19Isaiah 10:16Hosea 5:13

(26) And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
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Exodus 21:20Deuteronomy 16:19Nehemiah 5:5Job 31:13Job 31:14Job 31:15Psalms 9:12Psalms 10:14Psalms 10:18Psalms 72:12Psalms 72:13Psalms 72:14

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34Exodus 21:24Leviticus 24:20Job 24:15

(27) And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
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Exodus 21:24Leviticus 24:20Deuteronomy 19:21Matthew 5:38Exodus 21:26

(28) If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
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Exodus 21:32Genesis 9:5Genesis 9:6Leviticus 20:15Leviticus 20:16

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Exodus 21:36Exodus 21:35Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:32Exodus 22:1I Samuel 14:34

(29) But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 21:1Deuteronomy 21:2Deuteronomy 21:3Deuteronomy 21:4Deuteronomy 21:5Deuteronomy 21:6Deuteronomy 21:7Deuteronomy 21:8Deuteronomy 21:9

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Exodus 21:36Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:32Exodus 21:35Exodus 22:1I Samuel 14:34

(30) If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
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Exodus 21:22Exodus 30:12Numbers 35:31Numbers 35:32Numbers 35:33Proverbs 13:8

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Philippians 4:8Genesis 22:9Genesis 41:48I Kings 3:20Isaiah 15:1Ezekiel 6:6

(31) Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:9Leviticus 18:17Ecclesiastes 12:14Romans 14:8

(32) If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
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Genesis 37:28Zechariah 11:12Zechariah 11:13Matthew 26:15Matthew 27:3Matthew 27:4Matthew 27:5Matthew 27:6Matthew 27:7Matthew 27:8Matthew 27:9Philippians 2:7

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Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:36Deuteronomy 5:14Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:35Numbers 7:13

(33) And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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Psalms 9:15Psalms 119:85Proverbs 28:10Ecclesiastes 10:8Jeremiah 18:20Jeremiah 18:22

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Isaiah 24:18Revelation 9:2Jeremiah 48:44Proverbs 22:14Proverbs 26:27Luke 14:5

(34) The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
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Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:30Exodus 22:6Exodus 22:14

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Revelation 4:7II Kings 12:4Exodus 21:29Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15

(35) And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
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Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:36Exodus 22:1Romans 14:8Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:32

(36) Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
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Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:35Exodus 21:32Exodus 22:1I Samuel 14:34

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