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Exodus 21:1

וְאֵ֨לֶּה֙
ʼêl-leh
and — these or those
הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים
mishpâṭ
the — properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
תָּשִׂ֖ים
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
לִפְנֵיהֶֽם
pânîym
to/for — the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Exodus 21:1 · Masoretic Text (WLC)
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“Now these are the ordinances (laws) which you shall set before the Israelites:
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