Exodus 21:2–11

²If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. ⁵But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free; ⁶then his master shall bring him before the judges, 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 be his bondman for ever. ⁷And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out. ⁸If she is unacceptable in the eyes of her master, who had taken her for himself, then shall he let her be ransomed: to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power, after having dealt unfaithfully with her. ⁹And if he have appointed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the law of daughters. ¹⁰If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish. ¹¹And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.