Exodus 21:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

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  • Deut 15:16-17 : 16 But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you; 17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
  • Isa 26:13 : 13 O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

    3 If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

    4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

  • Exod 21:6-11
    6 verses
    83%

    6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

    8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

    9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

    10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

    11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    82%

    16 But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

    17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

    18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    76%

    39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

    40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

    41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

    42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    75%

    53 And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

    54 And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

    55 For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

    13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

    21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

  • Deut 23:15
    72%

    15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

  • Jer 34:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

    14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

  • Deut 21:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

    15 If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9 That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

    10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

    11 But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

  • Exod 4:23
    71%

    23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

  • Matt 18:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25 And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

    26 So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.

  • 1 Cor 7:21
    71%

    21 If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

  • Ps 116:16
    70%

    16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

  • Col 3:22
    70%

    22 Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

  • Eph 6:5
    70%

    5 Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

  • Prov 29:21
    69%

    21 If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

  • John 8:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35 Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

    36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

  • Lev 25:51
    69%

    51 If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

  • Job 31:13
    69%

    13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Exod 21:32
    69%

    32 If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

  • Job 41:4
    69%

    4 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

  • Gen 44:33
    68%

    33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

  • Titus 2:9
    68%

    9 Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

  • Gen 30:26
    68%

    26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.