Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Exodus 21:4

The wife and her children shall be her master' s - It was a law among the Hebrews, that if a Hebrew had children by a Canannitish woman, those children must be considered as Canaanitish only, and might be sold and bought, and serve for ever. The law here refers to such a case only.




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