If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
If his master have given him a wife - should he have married a female slave-not a Hebrew maid, as Salvador assumes ('Institutions de Moise'), whose term of six years did not end with that of her husband; but a pagan maid, who had no claim to such a privilege-she and the children, after the husband's liberation, remained the master's property.