Exodus 21:3
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New International Version (©1984)
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.

New Living Translation (©2007)
If he was single when he became your slave, he shall leave single. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife must be freed with him.

English Standard Version (©2001)
If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If he comes to you by himself, he must leave by himself. If he comes as a married man, his wife may leave with him.

King James Bible
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

American King James Version
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

American Standard Version
If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Bible in Basic English
If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.

Darby Bible Translation
If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

English Revised Version
If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Webster's Bible Translation
If he came in by himself, he shall depart by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall depart with him.

World English Bible
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Young's Literal Translation
if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

Geneva Study Bible

If he {b} came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

(b) Not having wife nor children.

King James Translators' Notes

by himself: Heb. with his body

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-11 The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.


Exodus 21:2 "If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
Exodus 21:4 "If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone. (NASB ©1995)

Alone Depart Free Husband Married Owner Single Wife


If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

by himself. Heb. with his body

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