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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
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Names, People and Places:
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 |
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NET Notes: Exo 21:1 There follows now a series of rulings called “the decisions” or “the judgments” (הַמִּש...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:2 The adverb חִנָּם (hinnam) means “gratis, free”; it is related to the verb “to be gracious, show...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:3 The phrase says, “if he was the possessor of a wife”; the noun בַּעַל (ba’al) can mean “po...
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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 ̵...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:5 Or taken as a desiderative imperfect, it would say, “I do not want to go out free.”
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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 ...
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NET Notes: Exo 21:8 The deceit is in not making her his wife or concubine as the arrangement had stipulated.
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