Exodus 21:5
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New International Version (©1984)
"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But if he makes this statement: 'I hereby declare my love for my master, my wife, and my children. I don't want to leave as a free man,'

King James Bible
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

American King James Version
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

American Standard Version
But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Bible in Basic English
But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

Darby Bible Translation
But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free;

English Revised Version
But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not depart free:

World English Bible
But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

Young's Literal Translation
'And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

Geneva Study Bible

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

King James Translators' Notes

shall...: Heb. saying shall say

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.


Deuteronomy 15:16 "It shall come about if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you;
Deuteronomy 15:17 then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant. (NASB ©1995)

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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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shall plainly say. Heb. saying shall say

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