This week’s parashat is the 6th parashat in the book of Shemot also called Exodus, and is called Mishpatim which means ‘Judgments’.
Bullet Point Summary
– On the 7th year you shall set free your Hebrew Servants and they shall go out with what they came with
– If a servant will not go out, you shall take him to the judges, bore his ear, and he shall serve you forever
– The rules of the maidservant on the 7th year are given
– He that smites a man that he dies shall be put to death
– He that smites his father or mother shall be put to death
– He that steals a man and sells him shall be put to death
– He that curses his father or mother shall be put to death
– If a man smite another that he takes up a bed, he shall pay him for his time until he is healed
– If a man smites his servant that he dies he shall be punished
– If men cause a pregnant woman to lose her child they shall be punished, and if mischief follow it will be eye for eye
– If a man smite his servant’s eye or tooth and he lose it, he shall be set free
– If an ox gores a person and they die the ox shall be put to death
– If an ox has pushed people before then kills someone the ox and owner shall die unless he pays a ransom for himself
– If an ox pushes a servant the owner shall pay their master 30 shakels of silver and the ox will be stoned
– If a man digs a pit and an animal falls in he shall pay the owner for it
– If an ox kills another’s they shall sell the live ox and split the money and divide the dead ox
– If a man steals an ox or sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall restore 5 ox for one or 4 sheep for one
– If a man is found breaking in, in the night, and is killed it is on his own head, but if it is day there is guilt
– If the theft is found in his hand he shall restore it double
– If a man’s animal shall eat of another man’s field he shall repay with the best of his field
– If a fire damages grain or standing grain the man who caused it shall pay for the loss
– If you’re holding something for someone and it is stolen you shall be brought before the judges if the thief is not found
– If there is a dispute of ownership the matter will come before the judges and the loser will pay double
– If you’re holding an animal for someone and it dies, gets hurt, or runs away, they shall make an oath of innocence
– If a man borrows something and it is hurt or dies he shall make it good unless the owner was with it
– If a man lay with a woman not betrothed he shall take her to wife, if the father refuses he shall pay a dowry
– You shall not suffer a witch to live
– Whoever lays with a beast shall be put to death
– Whoever sacrifices to another elohim shall be destroyed
– You shall not oppress a stranger
– You shall not afflict the widow or the fatherless
– You shall not lend to the poor with interest
– If you take clothing for a pledge you shall return it to him by sundown
– You shall not revile the mighty ones nor curse the ruler of your people
– You shall not delay in giving your firstfruits
– You shall be holy and not eat an animal torn by beasts
– You shall not raise a false report or join to the wicked as a false witness
– You shall not follow a multitude to do evil
– You shall not honor a poor man in his cause
– You shall return an enemy’s lost animal
– You shall not turn your eye from even an enemy who needs help
– You shall not bend the judgment of the poor in their matters
– Keep far from a false matter
– You shall take no bribe
– You shall not oppress the stranger
– Every 7th year you shall let your field rest and the poor may eat of your field and vineyard
– You shall rest on the 7th day, you and all your servants and animals
– Keep all things I have said and make no mention of the name of other elohim
– All males shall come before me 3 times a year, Feast of unleavened bread, Feast of Harvest, and Feast of Ingathering
– You shall not offer the blood of His sacrifice with leavened bread nor leave the fat of the sacrifice until morning
– You shall bring your firstfruits to the house of YHWH and shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk
– YHWH sends an angel before Him do not provoke him, if you obey him YHWH will be an enemy to your enemies
– Do not serve the elohim of the people He will cast out but serve Elohim and He will bless you
– The blessings for serving YHWH are given
– Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and the 70 elders are commanded to come worship YHWH, but Moshe alone will draw near
– Moshe told the people all the judgments of YHWH and all the people said all YHWH has said we will do
– Moshe wrote down all the words of YHWH and built an altar with 12 pillars under the hill
– Moshe sent young men of Yisra’el to offer sacrifices and he put half of the blood into basons and half on the altar
– Moshe read the book of the covenant to the people and they said all YHWH has said we will do and be obedient
– Moshe took the blood and sprinkled the people saying behold the blood of the covenant
– Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and the 70 elders saw Elohim and under His feet were sapphires
– YHWH called Moshe up to receive the two tables of stone with the law to teach the people
– Moshe tells the elders to stay with Aharon and him and Yahushua will go up
– Moshe went up into the mount and a cloud covered it for 6 days and on the 7th YHWH called to Moshe
– Moshe went into the cloud and was in the mount 40 days and 40 nights
– Haftarah – Yisra’el gets in trouble for not letting the servants go in the 7th year
Parashat Text with Readers and Daily Portions (Reader 1 Starts on Saturday Evening)
Mishpatim “Judgments”
Ex 21:1 – 24:18 , Jer 34: 8-22 ; 33: 25-26
Reader 1 (Saturday Evening Portion)
Exo 21:1 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
Exo 21:2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go
out free for nothing.
Exo 21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his
wife shall go out with him.
Exo 21:4 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.
Exo 21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I
will not go out free:
Exo 21:6 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.
Exo 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the
menservants do.
Exo 21:8 If she please not her master, who has 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 has dealt
deceitfully with her.
Exo 21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner
of daughters.
Exo 21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall
he not diminish.
Exo 21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
(Sunday Morning Portion)
Exo 21:12 He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Exo 21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but Elohim deliver him into his hand; then I will
appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Exo 21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you
shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Exo 21:15 And he that smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exo 21:16 And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall
surely be put to death.
Exo 21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Exo 21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist,
and he die not, but keeps his bed:
Exo 21:19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be
free: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Reader 2 (Sunday Evening Portion)
Exo 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his
hand; he shall be surely punished.
Exo 21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is
his money.
Exo 21:22 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.
Exo 21:23 And if any mischief follow, then you shall give life for life,
Exo 21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exo 21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Exo 21:26 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.
Exo 21:27 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.
Exo 21:28 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 free.
Exo 21:29 But if the ox pushed with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his
owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be
stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Exo 21:30 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.
Exo 21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this
judgment shall it be done unto him.
Exo 21:32 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.
(Monday Morning Portion)
Exo 21:33 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 donkey fall therein;
Exo 21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them;
and the dead beast shall be his.
Exo 21:35 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.
Exo 21:36 Or if it be known that the ox has used to push in time past, and his owner has not
kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
Exo 22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen
for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exo 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be
shed for him.
Exo 22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make
full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exo 22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or donkey, or
sheep; he shall restore double.
Reader 3 (Monday Evening Portion)
Exo 22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and
shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution.
Exo 22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing
grain, or the field, be consumed ; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exo 22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out
of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
Exo 22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the
judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods.
Exo 22:9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for raiment,
or for any manner of lost thing, which another challenges to be his, the cause of both parties
shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto
his neighbor.
Exo 22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbor an donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast,
to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
Exo 22:11 Then shall an oath of YHWH be between them both, that he has not put his hand
unto his neighbor’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it
good.
Exo 22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
Exo 22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good
that which was torn.
Exo 22:14 And if a man borrow of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof
being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Exo 22:15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired
thing, it came for his hire.
(Tuesday Morning Portion)
Exo 22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely
endow her to be his wife.
Exo 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to
the dowry of virgins.
Exo 22:18 You shall not suffer a witch to live.
Exo 22:19 Whoever lays with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Exo 22:20 He that sacrifices unto any elohim, save unto YHWH only, he shall be utterly
destroyed.
Exo 22:21 You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the
land of Mitzrayim.
Exo 22:22 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exo 22:23 If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their
cry;
Exo 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives
shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exo 22:25 If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him
as an usurer, neither shall you lay upon him interest.
Exo 22:26 If you at all take your neighbor’s raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it unto him
by that the sun going down:
Exo 22:27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep?
and it shall come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Reader 4 (Tuesday Evening Portion)
Exo 22:28 You shall not revile the mighty ones, nor curse the ruler of your people.
Exo 22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of you ripe fruits, and of you liquors: the
firstborn of your sons shall you give unto me.
Exo 22:30 Likewise shall you do with your oxen, and with your sheep: seven days it shall be
with his dam; on the eighth day you shall give it me.
Exo 22:31 And you shall be holy men unto me: neither shall you eat any flesh that is torn of
beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs.
(Wednesday Morning Portion)
Exo 23:1 You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an
unrighteous witness.
Exo 23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to
decline after many to wrest judgment:
Exo 23:3 Neither shall you honor a poor man in his cause.
Exo 23:4 If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it
back to him again.
Exo 23:5 If you see the donkey of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would
forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him.
Reader 5 (Wednesday Evening Portion)
Exo 23:6 You shall not turn away judgment of your poor in his cause.
Exo 23:7 Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I
will not justify the wicked.
Exo 23:8 And you shall take no bribe: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of
the righteous.
Exo 23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing
you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exo 23:10 And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:
Exo 23:11 But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people
may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal
with your vineyard, and with your oliveyard.
Exo 23:12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your
ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be
refreshed.
Exo 23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention
of the name of other elohim, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
(Thursday Morning Portion)
Exo 23:14 Three times you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exo 23:15 You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread
seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Aviv; for in it you
came out from Mitzrayim: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Exo 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the
field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in
your labors out of the field.
Exo 23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before Adon YHWH.
Exo 23:18 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
Exo 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of YHWH
your Elohim. You shall not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.
Reader 6 (Thursday Evening Portion)
Exo 23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into
the place which I have prepared.
Exo 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgressions: for my name is in him.
Exo 23:22 But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an
enemy unto your enemies, and an adversary unto your adversaries.
Exo 23:23 For my Angel shall go before you, and bring you in unto the Amori, and the
Chittite, and the Perizzi, and the Kenaani, the Chivi, and the Yevusi: and I will cut them off.
Exo 23:24 You shall not bow down to their elohim, nor serve them, nor do after their works:
but you shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Reader 7 (6th Day Friday Morning Double Portion)
Exo 23:25 And you shall serve YHWH your Elohim, and He shall bless your bread, and your
water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
Exo 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of
your days I will fulfill.
Exo 23:27 I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall
come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs unto you.
Exo 23:28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Chivi, the Kenaani,
and the Chitti, from before you.
Exo 23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become
desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.
Exo 23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased,
and inherit the land.
Exo 23:31 And I will set your bounds from the Sea of Suf even unto the sea of the Pelishtim,
and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your
hand; and you shall drive them out before you.
Exo 23:32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their elohim.
Exo 23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you
serve their elohim, it will surely be a snare unto you.
Exo 24:1 And He said unto Mohse, Come up unto YHWH, you, and Aharon, Nadav, and
Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra’el; and worship you afar off.
Exo 24:2 And Moshe alone shall come near YHWH: but they shall not come near; neither
shall the people go up with him.
Exo 24:3 And Moshe came and told the people all the words of YHWH, and all the
judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which
YHWH has said will we do.
Exo 24:4 And Moshe wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and
built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Yisra’el.
Exo 24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Yisra’el, which offered burnt offerings,
and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto YHWH.
Exo 24:6 And Moshe took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar.
Exo 24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and
they said, All that YHWH has said will we do, and be obedient.
Exo 24:8 And Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the
blood of the covenant, which YHWH has made with you concerning all these words.
Exo 24:9 Then went up Moshe, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of
Yisra’el:
Exo 24:10 And they saw the Elohim of Yisra’el: and there was under his feet as it were a
paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Exo 24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Yisra’el he laid not his hand: also they saw
Elohim, and did eat and drink.
Exo 24:12 And YHWH said unto Moshe, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I
will give you tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that you
may teach them.
Exo 24:13 And Moshe rose up, and his minister Yahushua: and Moshe went up into the
mount of Elohim.
Exo 24:14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry you here for us, until we come again unto you:
and, behold, Aharon and Chur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him
come unto them.
Exo 24:15 And Moshe went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
Exo 24:16 And the glory of YHWH abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day he called unto Moshe out of the midst of the cloud.
Exo 24:17 And the sight of the glory of YHWH was like devouring fire on the top of the
mount in the eyes of the children of Yisra’el.
Exo 24:18 And Moshe went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and
Moshe was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Haftarah (Shabbat Evening Portion)
Jer 34:8 This is the word that came unto YermeYahu from YHWH, after that the king
TzedkiYahu had made a covenant with all the people which were at Yerushalayim, to
proclaim liberty unto them;
Jer 34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a
Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, of a Yahudi his
brother.
Jer 34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant,
heard that everyone should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that
none should serve themselves of them anymore, then they obeyed, and let them go.
Jer 34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom
they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for
handmaids.
Jer 34:12 Therefore the word of YHWH came to YermeYahu from YHWH, saying,
Jer 34:13 Thus saith YHWH, the Elohim of Yisra’el; I made a covenant with your fathers in
the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen,
saying,
Jer 34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother a Hebrew, which has
been sold unto you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from
you: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Jer 34:15 And you were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty
every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is
called by my name:
Jer 34:16 But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and
every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and
brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jer 34:17 Therefore thus saith YHWH; You have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming
liberty, everyone to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty
for you, saith YHWH, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you
to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jer 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not
performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf
in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Jer 34:19 The princes of Yahudah, and the princes of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the
priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Jer 34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the fowls of the heaven, and
to the beasts of the earth.
Jer 34:21 And TzedkiYahu king of Yahudah and his princes will I give into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of
Bavel’s army, which are gone up from you.
Jer 34:22 Behold, I will command, saith YHWH, and cause them to return to this city; and
they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of
Yahudah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jer 33:25 Thus saith YHWH; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not
appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer 33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Ya’akov, and David my servant, so that I will not
take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya’akov: for I will
cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Review Torah Summaries (Shabbat Morning Portion)