Exodus 21:11

JPS Old Testament

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

King James Version
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

Lexham English Bible
And if he does not do for her these three, she shall go out for nothing; there will not be silver paid for her.

New Century Version
If he does not give her these three things, she may go free, and she owes him no money.

New English Translation
If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

Amplified Bible
"If he does not do these three things for her, then shall she leave free, without payment of money.

New American Standard Bible
"But if he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go free for nothing, without payment of money.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And if he do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.

Legacy Standard Bible
And if he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Contemporary English Version
If he fails to do any of these things, she must be given her freedom without cost.

Complete Jewish Bible
If he fails to provide her with these three things, she is to be given her freedom without having to pay anything.

Darby Translation
And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

Easy-to-Read Version
The man must do these three things for her. If he does not, the woman is made free, and it will cost her nothing. She owes no money to the man.

English Standard Version
And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

George Lamsa Translation
And if be does not these three things to her, then she shall go out free without price.

Good News Translation
If he does not fulfill these duties to her, he must set her free and not receive any payment.

Christian Standard Bible®
And if he does not do these three things for her, she may leave free of charge, without any payment.

Literal Translation
And if he does not do these three for her, she shall go out for nothing, without silver.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf he do not these thre, then shal she go out fre, and paye nothinge.

American Standard Version
And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

Bible in Basic English
And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if he do not these three vnto her, the shal she go out free & pay no money.

King James Version (1611)
And if he doe not these three vnto her, then shall she goe out free without money.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.

English Revised Version
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

Berean Standard Bible
If, however, he does not provide her these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If he doith not these thre, sche schal go out freli without money.

Young's Literal Translation
and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

Update Bible Version
And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if he shall not perform these three to her, then shall she depart free without money.

World English Bible
If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

New King James Version
And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

New Living Translation
If he fails in any of these three obligations, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.

New Life Bible
And if he will not do these three things for her, then she may go free, without paying any money.

New Revised Standard
And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out without debt, without payment of money.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But if these three, he will not do for her, then shall she go out for nought, without silver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

Revised Standard Version
And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. ² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ 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. ⁵ But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; ⁶ then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. ⁸ If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹ And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰ If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 21:2

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'

Genesis 21:1
And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.

Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

2 Samuel 18:33
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="2sa.18.1" class="versetxt"> And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people: 'I will surely go forth with you myself also.' But the people said: 'Thou shalt not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; but thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succour us out of the city.' And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying: 'Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.' And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom. So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on. And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said: 'Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.' And Joab said unto the man that told him: 'And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.' And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against mine own life--and there is no matter hid from the king--then thou thyself wouldest have stood aloof.' Then said Joab: 'I may not tarry thus with thee.' And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth. And ten young men that bore Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. And Joab blew the horn, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people. And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his tent.-- Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said: 'I have no son to keep my name in remembrance'; and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument unto this day. Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok: 'Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.' And Joab said unto him: 'Thou shalt not be the bearer of tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, forasmuch as the king's son is dead.' Then said Joab to the Cushite: 'Go tell the king what thou hast seen.' And the Cushite bowed down unto Joab, and ran. Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab: 'But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite.' And Joab said: 'Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?' 'But come what may, [said he,] I will run.' And he said unto him: 'Run.' Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and overran the Cushite. Now David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said: 'If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.' And he came apace, and drew near. And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said: 'Behold another man running alone.' And the king said: 'He also bringeth tidings.' And the watchman said: 'I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.' And the king said: 'He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.' And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king: 'All is well.' And he bowed down before the king with his face to the earth, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD thy God, who hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.' And the king said: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And Ahimaaz answered: 'When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.' And the king said: 'Turn aside, and stand here.' And he turned aside, and stood still. And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said: 'Tidings for my lord the king; for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.' And the king said unto the Cushite: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And the Cushite answered: 'The enemies of my lord the king and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if he do not these three unto her,.... Not the three things last mentioned; though this sense, Aben Ezra says, many of their interpreters give, which is rejected by him, so do some Christian expositors; but these three things are, espousing her to himself, or to his son, or redeeming her by the hand of her father; that is, letting her be redeemed by him, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Ben Melech: the meaning is, if one or other of these things are not done,

then shall she go out free without money; be dismissed from her servitude, and not obliged to pay anything for her freedom; the Targum of Jonathan adds, he shall give her a bill of divorce; that is, the son to whom she had been betrothed, and another wife taken by him, and she denied the above things; which favours the first sense.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If he do not these three unto her - The words express a choice of one of three things. The man was to give the woman, whom he had purchased from her father, her freedom, unless

(i) he caused her to be redeemed by a Hebrew master Exodus 21:8; or,

(ii) gave her to his son, and treated her as a daughter Exodus 21:9; or,

(iii) in the event of his taking another wife Exodus 21:10, unless he allowed her to retain her place and privileges.

These rules Exodus 21:7-11 are to be regarded as mitigations of the then existing usages of concubinage.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 21:11. These three —

1. Her food, שארה sheerah, her flesh, for she must not, like a common slave, be fed merely on vegetables.

2. Her raiment - her private wardrobe, with all occasional necessary additions. And,

3. The marriage debt - a due proportion of the husband's time and company.