Exodus 21:5 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁵ But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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

⁵ 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)

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ And if the servant will say, 'I love my lord, and my wife and children, I will not depart freely,'

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 to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

Isaiah 26:13

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