Exodus 21:5

American Standard Version

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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Exodus 21:5 in other translations

But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

Exodus 21:5 · World English Bible

Exodus 21:5 in context

  1. 3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
  2. 4If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
  3. 5But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
  4. 6then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
  5. 7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.