Exodus 21:3

New International Reader's Version

If he does not have a wife when he comes, he must go free alone. But if he has a wife when he comes, she must go with him.

Cross References

Exodus 21:2

“Suppose you buy a Hebrew servant. He must serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, you must set him free. He does not have to pay anything.

Exodus 21:4

Suppose his master gives him a wife. And suppose she has sons or daughters by him. Then only the man will go free. The woman and her children will belong to her master.

Exodus 21:7

“Suppose a man sells his daughter as a servant. Then she can’t go free as male servants do.

Leviticus 25:41

Then they and their children must be set free. They will go back to their own tribes. They will go back to the property their people have always owned.