Exodus 21:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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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

Exodus 21:3

If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:5

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

Genesis 16:2

and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 17:13

Both the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.