Exodus 21:3

if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife has gone out with him;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

2When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;

4if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goes out by himself.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:12When your brother is sold to you, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he has served you [for] six years, then in the seventh year you send him away free from you.

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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