Exodus 21:4

World English Bible (2000)

If his master gives him a wife and she bears 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%

    2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

    3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Exod 21:5-11
    7 verses
    87%

    5 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

    6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

    8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married 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.

    9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

    10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

    11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

  • Lev 25:41-42
    2 verses
    78%

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

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

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    26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    75%

    53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

    54 If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

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    13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail 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.

    14 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 deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

    15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

    16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

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    16 It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;" because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

    17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

    18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

    3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

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

    21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

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    12 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.

    13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

  • 25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

    10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

    11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

  • 21 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

  • 44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

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

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

  • 15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

  • 21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

  • 23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

  • 14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

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

  • 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

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

  • 39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

  • 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

  • 10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

  • 30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

  • 4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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