◄ Exodus 21:3 ►
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Good News Translation
If he was unmarried when he became your slave, he is not to take a wife with him when he leaves; but if he was married when he became your slave, he may take his wife with him.

New Revised Standard Version
If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Contemporary English Version
If he was single at the time you bought him, he alone must be set free. But if he was married at the time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom.

New American Bible
If he comes into service alone, he shall leave alone; if he comes with a wife, his wife shall leave with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

by himself.

Context
Laws for Servants
…2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.4But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Exodus 21:4
But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

Exodus 21:7
If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

Exodus 21:2
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