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In the 21. of Exodus 3. verse,¹ a law is set down for hebrew servants, that they should be released of their service at the end of six years, and then is further added in what sort they should be sent away, namely that if the servant bring ⟨p. 292⟩with him nothing but his own body, ²that is, if he come alone, as the 70. have interpreted the text, having no wife, then he should go out himself alone, and not his wife with him, as is in the verse following expressed. Your translator hath misconstrued the law, and marred the sense, in turning the hebrew thus,³ with what manner of garment he entered, with such let him go out. And so also in the 10. verse following, where God commandeth that if one hath betrothed his maid to his son, and after take him another wife, he shall not diminish the food of the former; your translator hath made another law for this, that he shall provide a marriage for the maidservant, ⁴which is utterly from the meaning of the law.

In the 21. of Exodus 3. verse,¹ a law is set downe for hebrew seruants, that they should be released of their seruice at the end of six yeares, and then is further added in what sorte they should be sent awaie, namelie that if the seruant bring ⟨p. 292⟩with him nothing but his owne bodie, ²that is, if he come alone, as the 70. haue interpreted the text, hauing no wife, then he should go out himselfe alone, and not his wife with him, as is in the verse following expressed. Your translator hath misconstrued the law, and marred the sense, in turning the hebrew thus,