“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go free, without payment.
Exodus 21:3 - Tree of Life Version If he comes in by himself, he is to go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife will go out with him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If he came [to you] by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he came married, then his wife shall go out with him. American Standard Version (1901) If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. Common English Bible If he came in single, he will leave single. If he came in married, then his wife will leave with him. Catholic Public Domain Version With whatever clothing he arrived, with the like let him depart. If he has a wife, his wife also shall depart, at the same time. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him. |
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go free, without payment.
If his master gave him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master’s, and he will go free by himself.
“If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she is not to go free as the male servants do.
then he is to be released from you—he and his children with him—and may return to his own family and to the property of his fathers.