Exodus 21:3 Parallel Translations

If he comes to you by himself, he must leave by himself. If he comes as a married man, his wife may leave with him.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

ASV:

If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

BBE:

If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

DBY:

If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

ERV:

If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

JPS:

If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

WBS:

If he came in by himself, he shall depart by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall depart with him.

WEB:

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

YLT:

if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

Exodus 21:3 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 21:2 "If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

Exodus 21:4 "If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

21:3 If he {b} came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
(b) Not having wife nor children.

MHC:

21:1-11 The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.

CONC:

Alone Depart Free Husband Married Owner Single Wife

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