Exodus 21:5

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

A Conservative Version

In The 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:

In Context

4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

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

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Cross References

Isaiah 26:13O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, but by thee only we will make mention of thy name.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12

Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 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. 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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