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Exodus 21:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. "

Exodus 21:6

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4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 And 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 unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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From This Chapter

Exodus 21:1

"Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them."

Exodus 21:2

"If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."

Exodus 21:3

"If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him."

Exodus 21:4

"If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself."

Exodus 21:5

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

Exodus 21:7

"And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do."

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