Exodus 21:5
World English Bible (WEB)
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
In context
3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 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.
5 But 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 to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
Exodus 21:5 in every translation
- 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;’
- 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:
- 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,’
- 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: