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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 21:4

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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21:4-6 The master was not required to provide a slave with a wife who would then be freed with him. The slave in such a situation had to either abandon the family he began while he was a slave or become a permanent slave.
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