Exodus 21:1
World English Bible
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1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master`s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 But if the servant shall plainly say, `I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;`
6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.