Parallel Bible results for "exodus 21:1-11"

Exodus 21:1-11

Common English Bible CEB

1 These are the case laws that you should set before them:

2 When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he will serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he will go free without any payment.

3 If he came in single, he will leave single. If he came in married, then his wife will leave with him.

4 If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He will leave single.

5 However, if the slave clearly states, "I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I don't want to go free,"

6 then his master will bring him before God. He will bring him to the door or the doorpost. There his master will pierce his ear with a pointed tool, and he will serve him as his slave for life.

7 When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shouldn't be set free in the same way as male slaves are set free.

8 If she doesn't please her master who chose her for himself, then her master must let her be bought back by her family. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people since he has treated her unfairly.

9 If he assigns her to his son, he must give her the rights of a daughter.

10 If he takes another woman for himself, he may not reduce her food, clothing, or marital rights.

11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she will go free without any payment, for no money.

New International Version NIV

1 “These are the laws you are to set before them:

2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.

4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’

6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.

11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.