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 21:3
 21:4
 21:5
21:4 If his master gives him a wife, and she bears sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall remain her master's property. [The slave] shall leave by himself.
Im-adonav yiten-lo ishah veyaldah-lo vanim o vanot ha'ishah viladeyha tihyeh la'adoneyha vehu yetse vegapo.
21:5 If the slave declares, 'I am fond of my master, my wife and my children; I do not want to go free,'
Ve'im-amor yomar ha'eved ahavti et-adoni et-ishti ve'et-banay lo etse chofshi.


Commentary:

wife
  A gentile slave woman (Mekhilta; Rashi).





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