“When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.
Exodus 21:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. More versionsKing 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. |
“When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Then they and their children with them shall go out from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property.