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

“But if the slave declares: ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:3 Lit he is the husband of

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