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Exodus 20:22-21:11 — Laws About Altars and Servants

Exod.20.22-21.11

²²Then the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven. ²³You shall not make alongside Me gods of silver, and gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves. ²⁴You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and I will bless you. ²⁵And if you make an altar of stones for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it. ²⁶And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.'

Chapter 21

¹"Now these are the ordinances that you shall set before them: ²If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve for six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, without payment. ³If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself. ⁵But if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' ⁶then his master shall bring him to the judges , and he shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. ⁷"And if a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants go out. ⁸If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall not have authority to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. ¹⁰If he takes another wife for himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. ¹¹And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out without payment, without money.

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4/11/2026

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