Exodus 21:4

If his master provides him a wife and she has children with him, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall be freed.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3If he was single when he came, he is to leave single. If he had a wife when he came, she is to leave with him.

5However, if the slave formally states, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to be freed,’

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Cross References

Genesis 17:13You must circumcise those born in your household or bought from foreigners as a sign in your bodies of my eternal agreement.

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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