Translations
Exodus 21 - Hebrew Servants2 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,’
6 then his master is to bring him before the judges.a And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
7 And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
8 If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.
9 And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.
10 If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
11 If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.
Corrected:
Men:
2 If you buy any Hebrew servants: the man 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 male servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
6 then his master is to bring him before the judges as a witness, and he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
Woman:
7 And if a man takes a female servant and then decides to sell her, she is not to go free as the menservants do.*
8 If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had engadged/married her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken the contract with her.**
9 And if he chooses to give her to his son, he must treat her as with a daughter.
10 If the owner takes another servant wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first servant wife.
11 If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, Then she is free to go without monetary payment.***
* Faithful Woman are always protected under the law! Females both yound and old must always have a man that's responsible for them...
** Because she has not broken any laws and is under the covenant.
*** She becomes free because the owner failed in the covenants and duties and forfeits and debt owed to him.
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