If he [a]came himself alone, he shall go out himself alone: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master hath given him a wife and she hath borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her [b]master’s, but he shall go out himself alone.

But if the servant say thus, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:3 Not having wife nor children.
  2. Exodus 21:4 Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth.

If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’(A)

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