Exodus 21:4-6
1599 Geneva Bible
4 If his master hath given him a wife and she hath borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her [a]master’s, but he shall go out himself alone.
5 But if the servant say thus, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the [b]Judges, and set him to the [c]door, or to the post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him [d]forever.
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- Exodus 21:4 Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth.
- Exodus 21:6 Hebrew, gods.
- Exodus 21:6 Where the judges sat.
- Exodus 21:6 That is, to the year of Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year.
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