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Exodus 21:3
Exodus 21:3 is verse 3 of Exodus chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.
King James Version
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
World English Bible
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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Exodus 21:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
3 If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 15:12If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
Deuteronomy 15:13And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 15:14You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.