Exodus 21:3

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If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; but if he is married, then his wife shall leave with him.

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  • Deut 15:12-14 : 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year, you must set them free. 13 And when you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed. 14 Provide them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

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  • Exod 21:4-11
    8 verses
    88%

    4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

    5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to go free,’

    6 then his master shall bring him before God. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

    7 If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

    8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He does not have the right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

    9 If he designates her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

    10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or marital rights.

    11 If he does not provide these three things for her, she is to go free, without any payment.

  • Exod 21:2
    78%

    2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he shall go free, without any payment.

  • Lev 25:41
    76%

    41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 If a man marries a woman but she does not find favor in his eyes because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, give it to her, and send her away from his house.

    2 When she leaves his house, she may go and become another man's wife.

    3 If the second man also dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if the second man dies,

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    72%

    53 They are to be treated as a yearly hired worker while with their buyer, and they must not be ruled over harshly in your sight.

    54 If they are not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee.

  • Deut 21:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 She shall remove the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

    14 But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

    15 If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,

  • Deut 15:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 But if they say to you, 'I will not leave you,' because they love you and your household and are well off with you,

    17 then take an awl and pierce their ear to the door, and they will become your servant for life. You shall do the same for your female servant.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the eye.

    27 And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the tooth.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year, you must set them free.

    13 And when you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

  • Lev 21:13
    69%

    13 He must marry a woman who is a virgin.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 To the married I give this command—not I, but the Lord: A wife must not separate from her husband.

    11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

  • Exod 22:15
    69%

    15 If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride price for her and make her his wife.

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7 If anyone is engaged to a woman but has not yet married her, let him go back to his house, lest he die in battle and another man marry her.

  • Deut 25:5
    68%

    5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 For a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.

    3 Consequently, while her husband is still alive, she would be called an adulteress if she joins herself to another man; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so she would not be an adulteress by becoming another man’s wife.

  • Num 30:6
    68%

    6 But if her father rules against her when he hears about it, none of her vows or pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. The LORD will forgive her because her father has objected to it.

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24 For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

  • Deut 24:5
    68%

    5 If a man has recently married, he is not to be sent to war or have any duty laid on him. He is to be free to stay at home for one year and bring joy to his wife whom he has married.

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    68%

    20 If a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod, and the servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

    21 However, if the servant survives for a day or two, the man shall not be punished, because the servant is his property.

  • Jer 34:9
    68%

    9 Each was to free his Hebrew servants, both male and female, so that no one would enslave a fellow Hebrew, a fellow Jew.

  • Deut 25:7
    67%

    7 But if the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the city gate and say, 'My brother-in-law is refusing to perform his duty to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is unwilling to marry me.'

  • Matt 22:25
    67%

    25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    67%

    17 He called his servant who attended him and said, 'Throw this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.'

  • Gen 8:16
    67%

    16 Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

  • Deut 22:13
    67%

    13 If a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and then turns against her,

  • Deut 25:11
    67%

    11 If two men fight with each other, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs him by his private parts,

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    67%

    2 But because of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  • Num 5:20
    67%

    20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—

  • Lev 25:51
    67%

    51 If there are still many years until the Jubilee, they must pay the price of their redemption in proportion to the years remaining.

  • Lev 25:26
    67%

    26 But if a man has no one to redeem it for him, and later he prospers and finds enough to redeem it,

  • Gen 8:18
    66%

    18 So Noah went out, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    66%

    39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.