slavery married (and apparently his wife is in bondage as well), he and his wife shall both go free during the sabbatical year. 21:4. ‘If his master gives a wife to him, and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to his master. And he shall go out by himself.’ If a debtor-slave is provided with a slave-wife during his bondage, then the woman (and any children she might bear) are not freed at the sabbatical year, or at the jubilee. An ancient Near-Eastern law code
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