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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master`s, and he shall go out by himself.
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The Status of the Family
Commentators explain that this law concerns a Hebrew servant given a non-Hebrew female slave as a wife. Because the woman was already the master's permanent property, any children she bore also belonged to the master. Therefore, when the husband's six-year term of service ended, his wife and children remained in servitude.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
If his master have given him a wife.—If, however, the Hebrew slave, being previously unmarried, had been allowed by his master to take to …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If his master have given him a wife One of his slaves, a Canaanitish woman, on purpose to beget slaves on her, since…
Presbyterian
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,…
