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21:1 Rules about slaves

(Deu. 15:12-18)

21 These are the rules that you must present to them:

Hebrew slaves

2 If you buy a Hebrew slave, he should serve for six years, then in the seventh year he must be set free without having to pay you anything.[ref] 3 If he came by himself, he can go free by himself. If he’s married with a wife, then his wife must be set free with him. 4 If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, then the wife and her children are her master’s, and only the husband must be set free. 5 But if he plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children so I voluntarily choose not to be set free,” 6 then his master must take him to the place of worship. He must bring him to a door or to a doorpost, and his master must bore a hole his ear with an awl. Then he must serve him for life.

7 And if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she won’t be sent away after six years like the male slaves. 8 If the man who bought her wanted her to become his slave-wife, but later he isn’t pleased with her behaviour, he must allow her to be bought back by her relatives. He has no authority to sell her on to outsiders, because that would break the understanding of proper treatment of her. 9 Or if he selected her to become his son’s slave-wife, then he must treat her like a daughter would expect to be treated. 10 If he go on to take another slave-wife, he mustn’t reduce the first one’s food or clothing, or her marital rights, 11 but if he doesn’t provide these three things to her, then she can go free without having to pay anything.

21:2-6: Lev 25:39-46.

21 and_these the_ordinances which you _will _set before_face/front_them.
2 If/because you _will _buy a _slave Hebrew six years he _will _serve and_in/on/at/with_seventh he _will _go _out as _a_free without _paying.
3 If in/on/at/with_single he _will _come in/on/at/with_single he _will _go _out if [is _the]_husband of _a _wife he and_go _out his/its_wife/woman with_him/it.
4 If master_his he _will _give to_him/it a _wife and_bears to_him/it sons or daughters the_woman and_children_her she _will _belong to_master_her and_he he _will _go _out in/on/at/with_single.
5 And_if explicitly _(say) he _will _say the_slave I _love DOM my_master DOM wife_my and_DOM children_my not I _will _go _out a _free _[person].
6 And_bring_him master_his to the_ʼElohīm and_bring_him to the_door or to the_doorpost and_pierce master_his DOM ear_his in/on/at/with_awl and_serve_him to_vanishing _point.
7 and_because/when he _will _sell a _man DOM daughter_his as_slave not she _will _go _out as_go _out the_male _slaves.
8 If [she _is]_displeasing in/on_both _eyes _of master_her who wwww[fn] designated_her and_redeemed_her to_people foreign not he _will _have _dominion to_sell_her in/on/at/with_broken _faith_he in/on/at/with_her.
9 And_if for_son_his designates_her according _to_customary _treatment the_daughters he _will _do with_her.
10 If another _[woman] he _will _take to_him/it food_her clothing_her and_marital _rights_her not he _will _reduce.
11 And_if three _[things] these not he _will _do to/for_her/it and_go _out without _paying there _[will]_not _[be] money.

21:8 Variant note: לא: (x-qere) ’ל֥/וֹ’: lemma_l morph_HR/Sp3ms id_023Mv ל֥/וֹ

OET by section EXO 21:1

Rules about slaves

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