Exodus 21:4

Exodus chapter 21 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If 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.

Context

v.3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

v.4This passage

v.5But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: