Exodus 21:3

New Living Translation

If he was single when he became your slave, he shall leave single. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife must be freed with him.

Cross References

Exodus 21:2

“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he may serve for no more than six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.

Exodus 21:4

“If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave and they had sons or daughters, then only the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.

Exodus 21:7

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.

Leviticus 25:41

At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors.