Exodus 21:1-11
1599 Geneva Bible
21 Temporal and civil ordinances appointed by God touching servitude, murders, and wrongs: the observation whereof doth not justify a man, but are given to bridle our corrupt nature, which else would break out into all mischief and cruelty.
1 Now these are the laws, which thou shalt set before them:
2 (A)If thou buy an Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free for [a]nothing.
3 If he [b]came himself alone, he shall go out himself alone: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master hath given him a wife and she hath borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her [c]master’s, but he shall go out himself alone.
5 But if the servant say thus, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the [d]Judges, and set him to the [e]door, or to the post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him [f]forever.
7 Likewise if a man [g]sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall [h]he cause to buy her: he shall have no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he [i]despised her.
9 But if he hath betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her [j]according to the custom of the daughters.
10 If he take [k]him another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her raiment, and recompense of her virginity.
11 And if he do not these [l]three unto her, then shall she go out free, paying no money.
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- Exodus 21:2 Paying no money for his liberty.
- Exodus 21:3 Not having wife nor children.
- Exodus 21:4 Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth.
- Exodus 21:6 Hebrew, gods.
- Exodus 21:6 Where the judges sat.
- Exodus 21:6 That is, to the year of Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year.
- Exodus 21:7 Constrained either by poverty, or else to the intent that the master should marry her.
- Exodus 21:8 By giving another money to buy her of him.
- Exodus 21:8 Or, deflowered her.
- Exodus 21:9 That is, he shall give his dowry.
- Exodus 21:10 For his son.
- Exodus 21:11 Neither marry her himself, nor give another money to buy her, nor bestow her upon his son.
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