Exo 21:4-6 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Exod 21:4-6: 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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‏ Exodus 21:4-6

Summary for Exod 21:4-6: 21:4-6 ^a 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.