◄ Exodus 21:4 ►
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Good News Translation
If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man is to leave by himself.

New Revised Standard Version
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s and he shall go out alone.

Contemporary English Version
If you give him a wife, and they have children, only the man himself must be set free; his wife and children remain the property of his owner.

New American Bible
But if his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to her master and the man shall leave alone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Context
Laws for Servants
…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.5And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:…
Cross References
Exodus 21:3
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.

Exodus 21:5
And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

Exodus 21:3
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