Exodus 21:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she hath borne him sonnes or daughters, he wife and her children shalbe her masters, but he shall goe out himselfe alone.

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  • Exod 21:2-3
    2 verses
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    2If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shal go out free, for nothing.

    3If he came himselfe alone, he shall goe out himselfe alone: if hee were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Exod 21:5-11
    7 verses
    87%

    5But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

    6Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, & set him to the dore, or to the poste, and his master shall bore his eare through with a nawle, and he shall serue him for euer.

    7Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shal not goe out as the men seruantes doe.

    8If shee please not her master, who hath betrothed her to him selfe, then shall hee cause to buy her: hee shall haue no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he despised her.

    9But if he hath betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shal deale with her according to the custome of the daughters.

    10If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

    11And if he do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.

  • Lev 25:41-42
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    41Then shall he depart from thee, both hee, and his children with him, and shall returne vnto his familie, and vnto the possession of his fathers shall he returne:

    42For they are my seruants, whom I brought out of the lande of Egypt: they shall not be solde as bondmen are solde.

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    26And if a man smite his seruant in the eie, or his maide in the eye, and hath perished it, hee shall let him goe free for his eye.

    27Also if he smite out his seruants tooth, or his maides tooth, he shall let him goe out free for his tooth.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
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    53He shalbe with him yeere by yeere as an hired seruant: he shall not rule cruelly ouer him in thy sight.

    54And if he be not redeemed thus, he shal go out in the yeere of Iubile, he, and his children with him.

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    13And she shal put off the garment that shee was taken in, and she shal remaine in thine house, and bewaile her father & her mother a moneth long: and after that shalt thou go in vnto her, & marry her, and she shalbe thy wife.

    14And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

    15If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated,

    16Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:

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    16And if he say vnto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loueth thee & thine house, and because he is well with thee,

    17Then shalt thou take a naule, and perce his eare through against the doore, and he shall be thy seruant for euer: and vnto thy maid seruant thou shall doe likewise.

    18Let it not grieue thee, when thou lettest him goe out free from thee: for he hath serued thee sixe yeeres, which is the double worth of an hired seruant: and the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in all that thou doest.

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be shee finde no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath espyed some filthinesse in her, then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, & gone her way, and marrie with an other man,

    3And if the latter husband hate her, & write her a letter of diuorcement, & put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter man die which tooke her to wife:

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    20And if a man smite his seruant, or his maide with a rod, and he die vnder his hande, he shalbe surely punished.

    21But if he continue a day, or two dayes, hee shall not be punished: for he is his money.

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    12If thy brother an Ebrewe sell himselfe to thee, or an Ebrewesse, and serue thee sixe yeere, euen in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee:

    13And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him goe away emptie,

  • 25And because he had nothing to pay, his Lord commanded him to be solde, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and the dette to be payed.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9That euery man should let his seruant go free, and euery man his handmayde, which was an Ebrue or an Ebruesse, and that none should serue himselfe of them, to wit, of a Iewe his brother.

    10Now when all the princes, and all the people which had agreed to the couenant, heard that euery one should let his seruant go free, & euery one his handmaide, and that none should serue them selues of them any more, they obeyed and let them go.

    11But afterwarde they repented and caused the seruants and the handmayds, whom they had let go free, to returne, and helde them in subiection as seruants and handmayds.

  • 21He that delicately bringeth vp his seruant from youth, at length he will be euen as his sone.

  • 44Thy bond seruant also, & thy bond maid, which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye bye seruants and maydes.

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    31Whether he hath gored a sonne or gored a daughter, he shalbe iudged after the same maner.

    32If the oxe gore a seruant or a mayde, hee shal giue vnto their master thirtie shekels of siluer, and the oxe shalbe stoned.

  • 15Thou shalt not deliuer the seruant vnto his master, which is escaped from his master vnto thee.

  • 21Art thou called being a seruant? care not for it: but if yet thou maiest be free, vse it rather.

  • 23For the hatefull woman, when she is married, & for a handmaid that is heire to her mistres.

  • 14At the terme of seuen yeres let ye go, euery man his brother an Ebrewe which hath bene solde vnto thee: and when he hath serued the sixe yeres, thou shalt let him go free fro thee: but your fathers obeyed me not, neither inclined their eares.

  • 36And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.

  • 51If there be many yeeres behind, according to them he shall giue againe for his deliuerance, of the money that he was bought for.

  • 1Ye masters, doe vnto your seruants, that which is iust, and equall, knowing that ye also haue a master in heauen.

  • 39If thy brother also that dwelleth by thee, be impouerished, and be sold vnto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serue as a bond seruant,

  • 18If any man haue a sonne that is stubburne and disobedient, which wil not hearken vnto the voice of his father, nor the voyce of his mother, and they haue chastened him, and he would not obey them,

  • 10Whe thou shalt go to warre against thine enemies, & the Lord thy God shal deliuer them into thine hands, & thou shalt take the captiues,

  • 30But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

  • 4The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: & likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

  • 25Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.