Exodus 21:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out [of your service] alone.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

Common English Bible

⁴ If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He will leave single.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But 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.

Exodus 21:4 Cross References

Genesis 16:2

Sarai said to Abram, ‘Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.’ And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Genesis 17:13

Whether born in your household or purchased, he must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as a permanent covenant.

Exodus 21:3

If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with  a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

Exodus 21:5

‘But if the slave declares, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,”