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Text -- Exodus 21:1-9 (NET)

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The Decisions
21:1 “These are the decisions that you will set before them:
Hebrew Servants
21:2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything. 21:3 If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him. 21:4 If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself. 21:5 But if the servant should declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 21:6 then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. 21:7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do. 21:8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her. 21:9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Hebrew a person descended from Heber; an ancient Jew; a Hebrew speaking Jew,any Jew, but particularly one who spoke the Hebrew language


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Daughter | Servant | EZEKIEL, 2 | EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 | LAW OF MOSES | EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 | PAPYRUS | SABBATICAL YEAR | PENTATEUCH, 3 | PENTATEUCH, 2B | LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT | Israel | Book | Crucifixion | Revelation | BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY | SLAVE; SLAVERY | COVENANT, BOOK OF THE | SLAVE | PENTATEUCH, 2A | more
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NET Notes: Exo 21:1 There follows now a series of rulings called “the decisions” or “the judgments” (הַמִּש...

NET Notes: Exo 21:2 The adverb חִנָּם (hinnam) means “gratis, free”; it is related to the verb “to be gracious, show...

NET Notes: Exo 21:3 The phrase says, “if he was the possessor of a wife”; the noun בַּעַל (ba’al) can mean “po...

NET Notes: Exo 21:4 The slave would not have the right or the means to acquire a wife. Thus, the idea of the master’s “giving” him a wife is clear ̵...

NET Notes: Exo 21:5 Or taken as a desiderative imperfect, it would say, “I do not want to go out free.”

NET Notes: Exo 21:6 Or “till his life’s end” (as in the idiom: “serve him for good”).

NET Notes: Exo 21:7 The word אָמָה (’amah) refers to a female servant who would eventually become a concubine or wife; the sale price ...

NET Notes: Exo 21:8 The deceit is in not making her his wife or concubine as the arrangement had stipulated.

NET Notes: Exo 21:9 Or “after the manner of” (KJV, ASV); NRSV “shall deal with her as with a daughter.”

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