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,’

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.