Exodus 21:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But if the slave declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out a free person,’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free,

American Standard Version (1901)

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Common English Bible

However, if the slave clearly states, “I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I don’t want to go free,”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And if the servant will say, 'I love my lord, and my wife and children, I will not depart freely,'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

Exodus 21:5 Cross References

Exodus 21:4

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.

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him before God. He shall be brought to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him for life.

Isaiah 26:13

O Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but we acknowledge your name alone.