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Passage Lookup: Exodus 21:1-11
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New International Version (1984 Edition)
Exodus 21:1
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"These are the laws you are to set before them:
Exodus 21:2
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"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.
Exodus 21:3
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If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
Exodus 21:4
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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.
Exodus 21:5
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"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'
Exodus 21:6
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then his master must take him before the judges. (F46) He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
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Exodus 21:7
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"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do.
Exodus 21:8
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If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, (F47) he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.
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Exodus 21:9
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If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.
Exodus 21:10
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If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
Exodus 21:11
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If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
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