Exodus 21:11

King James Version (1611 Edition)

And if he doe not these three vnto her, then shall she goe out free 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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, 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 Iudgements which thou shalt set before them. ² If thou buy an Hebrew seruant, sixe yeeres he shall serue, and in the seuenth he shall goe out free for nothing. ³ If he came in by himselfe, he shal goe out by himselfe: if he were married, then his wife shall goe out with him. ⁴ If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her masters, and he shall go out by himselfe. ⁵ And if the seruant shall plainely say, I loue my master, my wife, and my children, I will not goe out free: ⁶ Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, hee shall also bring him to the doore, or vnto the doore post, and his master shall boare his eare through with an aule, and he shall serue him for euer. ⁷ And if a man sell his daughter to be a mayd seruant, shee shall not goe out as the men seruants doe. ⁸ If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himselfe, then shall he let her be redeemed: To sell her vnto a strange nation hee shall haue no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹ And if he haue betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her after the maner of daughters. ¹⁰ If he take him another wife, her food, her rayment, and her duety of mariage shall he not diminish.

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 21:2

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said vnto God, O that Ishmael might liue before thee.

Genesis 21:1
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did vnto Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 21:2
For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his old age, at the set time, of which God had spoken to him.

2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moued, and went vp to the chamber ouer the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus hee said, O my sonne Absalom, my sonne, my sonne Absalom: would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my sonne, my sonne.

Matthew 10:37
He that loueth father or mother more then me, is not worthy of me: and he that loueth sonne or daughter more then me, is not worthy of me.

Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but grieuous: neuerthelesse, afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are exercised thereby.

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.