Exodus 21:4

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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.

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  • Exod 21:2-3
    2 verses
    88%

    2If 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.

    3If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; but if he is married, then his wife shall leave with him.

  • Exod 21:5-11
    7 verses
    87%

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

    6then 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.

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

    8If 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.

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

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

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

  • Lev 25:41-42
    2 verses
    78%

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

    42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26If 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.

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

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Deut 21:13-16
    4 verses
    74%

    13She 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.

    14But 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.

    15If 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,

    16on the day he gives his inheritance to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the loved wife in place of the son of the unloved wife, who is really the firstborn.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

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

    17then 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.

    18Do not consider it hard to set them free, because their service to you for six years was worth twice as much as that of a hired worker, and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1If 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.

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

    3If 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,

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12If 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.

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

  • Matt 18:25
    71%

    25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

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

    10And all the officials and all the people who entered into the covenant agreed to set free their male and female slaves, so that they would no longer enslave them. They obeyed and set them free.

    11But afterward they turned back and took back the men and women they had freed, and forced them to become slaves again.

  • Prov 29:21
    70%

    21If a servant is pampered from youth, in the end he will cause grief.

  • Lev 25:44
    70%

    44Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

  • Exod 21:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31Whether it gores a son or a daughter, the same judgment applies to him.

    32If the ox gores a male or female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the servant, and the ox must be stoned.

  • Deut 23:15
    70%

    15For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies into your hands. Your camp must be holy so that He will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

  • 1 Cor 7:21
    69%

    21Were you called while a slave? Do not let it trouble you. But if you can gain your freedom, do so.

  • Prov 30:23
    69%

    23an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.

  • Jer 34:14
    69%

    14At the end of seven years, each of you must set free your Hebrew brothers who have been sold to you and have served you for six years. You must release them to go free. But your ancestors did not obey me or pay attention to me.

  • Gen 24:36
    69%

    36Sarah, my master’s wife, bore him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

  • Lev 25:51
    68%

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

  • Col 4:1
    68%

    1Masters, treat your servants with justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

  • Lev 25:39
    68%

    39If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

  • Deut 21:18
    68%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them,

  • Deut 21:10
    68%

    10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives,

  • Gal 4:30
    68%

    30But what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.'

  • 1 Cor 7:4
    68%

    4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

  • Matt 22:25
    68%

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