Exodus 21:4
“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.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
If his master have given him a wife,.... One of his slaves, a Canaanitish woman, on purpose to beget slaves on her,…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
The wife and her children shall be her master's - It was a law among the Hebrews, that if a Hebrew had children by a…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Exodus 21:1-11
The first verse is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following chapters, some of them relating…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
The third case. If the master marries a slave to one of his female slaves, the wife remains her master's slave as she…