Exodus 21:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:16-17 : 16 `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because `it is' good for him with thee -- 17 then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put `it' through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • Isa 26:13 : 13 O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2`When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

    3if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he `is' owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

    4if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters -- the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

  • Exod 21:6-11
    6 verses
    83%

    6then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.

    7`And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

    8if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

    9`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

    10`If another `woman' he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

    11and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

  • Deut 15:16-18
    3 verses
    82%

    16`And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because `it is' good for him with thee --

    17then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put `it' through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.

    18`It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26`And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

    27and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    76%

    39`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

    40as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

    41then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

    42`For they `are' My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold `with' the sale of a servant;

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    75%

    53as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.

    54`And if he is not redeemed in these `years', then he hath gone out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

    55For to Me `are' the sons of Israel servants; My servants they `are', whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, `am' your God.

  • Deut 15:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years -- then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.

    13And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20`And when a man smiteth his man-servant or his handmaid, with a rod, and he hath died under his hand -- he is certainly avenged;

    21only if he remain a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he `is' his money.

  • Deut 23:15
    72%

    15`Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;

  • Jer 34:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13`Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I -- I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying,

    14At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear.

  • Deut 21:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14`And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

    15`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant -- the Hebrew and the Hebrewess -- free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother;

    10and hearken do all the heads, and all the people who have come in to the covenant to send forth each his man-servant and each his maid-servant free, so as not to lay service on them any more, yea, they hearken, and send them away;

    11and they turn afterwards, and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants.

  • Exod 4:23
    71%

    23and I say unto thee, Send away My son, and he doth serve Me; and -- thou dost refuse to send him away -- lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born.'

  • Matt 18:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

    26The servant then, having fallen down, was bowing to him, saying, Sir, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all;

  • 1 Cor 7:21
    71%

    21a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it' rather;

  • Ps 116:16
    70%

    16Cause `it' to come, O Jehovah, for I `am' Thy servant. I `am' Thy servant, son of Thy handmaid, Thou hast opened my bonds.

  • Col 3:22
    70%

    22The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

  • Eph 6:5
    70%

    5The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

  • Prov 29:21
    69%

    21Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, `At' his latter end also he is continuator.

  • John 8:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;

    36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

  • Lev 25:51
    69%

    51`If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption `money', from the money of his purchase.

  • Job 31:13
    69%

    13If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

  • Exod 21:32
    69%

    32`If the ox gore a man-servant or a handmaid, thirty silver shekels he doth give to their lord, and the ox is stoned.

  • Job 41:4
    69%

    4Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

  • Gen 44:33
    68%

    33`And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,

  • Titus 2:9
    68%

    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

  • Gen 30:26
    68%

    26give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'