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Exodus 21:5

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21:5 But if the servant should declare, 1  ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out 2  free,’
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[21:5]  1 tn The imperfect with the infinitive absolute means that the declaration is unambiguous, that the servant will clearly affirm that he wants to stay with the master. Gesenius says that in a case like this the infinitive emphasizes the importance of the condition on which some consequence depends (GKC 342-43 §113.o).

[21:5]  2 tn Or taken as a desiderative imperfect, it would say, “I do not want to go out free.”



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