Exodus 21:1Modern English VersionNow these are the judgments which you will set before them. See the chapter |
Whenever a case comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed or offenses against law or commandment, against statutes or judgments, you shall warn them, lest they trespass against the Lord and wrath come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not trespass.
have decisively joined in with their countrymen and their nobles, and obligated themselves—by both a curse and an oath —to walk in the Law of God, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord who is our Lord, along with His judgments and His statutes,