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. 21:3 Lit he is the husband of

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