Exodus 21:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, 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 shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, without paying anything.

    3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Exod 21:5-11
    7 verses
    87%

    5And if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

    6then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

    8If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

    9And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

  • Lev 25:41-42
    2 verses
    78%

    41And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

    42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    75%

    53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

    54And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

  • Deut 21:13-16
    4 verses
    74%

    13And she shall put off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and mourn for her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

    14And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

    15If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,

    16Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn:

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16And it shall be, if he says to you, 'I will not go away from you,' because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

    17Then you shall take an awl, and pierce it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also unto your maidservant, you shall do likewise.

    18It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20And if a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

    21However, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.

  • Matt 18:25
    71%

    25But as he was not able to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9That every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should enslave them, a Jew his brother.

    10Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, and that none should enslave themselves anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

    11But afterward they turned and forced the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

  • Prov 29:21
    70%

    21He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

  • Lev 25:44
    70%

    44Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.

  • Exod 21:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31Whether it has gored a son or a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

    32If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Deut 23:15
    70%

    15You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you:

  • 1 Cor 7:21
    69%

    21Were you called while a servant? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.

  • Prov 30:23
    69%

    23For an unloved woman when she is married, and a maidservant who is heir to her mistress.

  • Jer 34:14
    69%

    14At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

  • Gen 24:36
    69%

    36And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.

  • Lev 25:51
    68%

    51If there be yet many years remaining, according to them he shall refund the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

  • Col 4:1
    68%

    1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

  • Lev 25:39
    68%

    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

  • Deut 21:18
    68%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

  • Deut 21:10
    68%

    10When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

  • Gal 4:30
    68%

    30Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.'

  • 1 Cor 7:4
    68%

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

  • Matt 22:25
    68%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.