World English Bible
Exodus 21:4
“If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.”
Verse in context — Exodus 21
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
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God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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