Exodus 21:3

3 If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with[a] a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

Exodus 21:3 In-Context

1 "These are the ordinances that you must set before them:
2 "When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.
3 If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.
5 "But if the slave declares: 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,'

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit he is the husband of
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