Exodus 21:5

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Exodus 21:5

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

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ASV

American Standard Version

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Exodus 21

³ If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.

⁴ 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.

⁵ But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’

⁶ then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

⁷ And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.

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