5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'


In Context

2 |If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

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 for ever.

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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:5"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not depart free:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons — I do not go out free;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: