“If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.”
Exodus 21:3 (KJV) |
Exodus 21:3
From Exodus 21, in the Book of Exodus (Old Testament).
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Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: