Exodus 21:4
If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.
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- Exod 21:2-32 verses88%
2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.
3If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.
- Exod 21:5-117 verses87%
5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
6then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
- Lev 25:41-422 verses78%
41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.
- Exod 21:26-272 verses75%
26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
- Lev 25:53-542 verses75%
53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
- Deut 21:13-164 verses74%
13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.
14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
15Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
16In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.
- Deut 15:16-183 verses74%
16However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,
17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).
18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
- Deut 24:1-33 verses74%
1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,
- Exod 21:20-212 verses73%
20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.
21However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.
- Deut 15:12-132 verses72%
12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.
13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
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25Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.
- Jer 34:9-113 verses71%
9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.
10All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.
11But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.
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21If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.
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44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
- Exod 21:31-322 verses70%
31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.
32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
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15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.
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21Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.
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23under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
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14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.
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36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.
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51If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,
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1Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
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39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.
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18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,
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10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
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30But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
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4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
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25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.