Exodus 21:3

With whatever clothing he arrived, with the like let him depart. If he has a wife, his wife also shall depart, at the same time.

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

In Context

2If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you; in the seventh, he shall depart freely, without charge.

4But if his lord gave him a wife, and she has borne sons and daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her lord. Yet still, he himself will go out with his clothing.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:12When your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, has been sold to you, and has served you for six years, in the seventh year you shall set him free.

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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