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Exodus 21:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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 by himself. "

Exodus 21:4

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2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 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 by himself.

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

6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

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Exodus 21:1

"“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:"

Exodus 21:2

"“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything."

Exodus 21:3

"If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him."

Exodus 21:5

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

Exodus 21:6

"then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever."

Exodus 21:7

"“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do."

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