If a married man became a bondman, his rights in regard to his wife were respected: but if a single bondman accepted at the hand of his master a bondwoman as his wife, the master did not lose his claim to the woman or her children, at the expiration of the husband’s term of service. Such wives, it may be presumed, were always foreign slaves.
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Exodus 21:3
3 If he came in by himself,a he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.