KJV 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:
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Exodus 21:5
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
WEB 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;’
ASV 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:
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — Exodus 21
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And 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 the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְאִם־H518 · imifאָמֹ֤רH559 · a.marto sayיֹאמַר֙H559 · a.marto sayהָעֶ֔בֶדH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveאָהַ֙בְתִּי֙H157 · a.havto love: loverאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אֲדֹנִ֔יH113 · a.donlordאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אִשְׁתִּ֖יH802 · ish.shahwomanוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בָּנָ֑יH1121 · benson: childלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotאֵצֵ֖אH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeחָפְשִֽׁי׃H2670 · choph.shifree
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 15:16-17And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;2 Corinthians 5:14-15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:Isaiah 26:13O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
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