If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus 21:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If he came [to you] by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he came married, then his wife shall go out with him. American Standard Version (1901) If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. Common English Bible If he came in single, he will leave single. If he came in married, then his wife will leave with him. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him. |
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
and then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.