Exodus 21:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
In context
3 If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
6 then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
7 And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
Exodus 21:5 in every translation
- 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,’
- 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:
- 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free;
- WBS Webster Bible
- And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not depart free: