²^bIf thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³If he came in ^†by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴If 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. ⁵^cAnd if the servant ^†shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: ⁶Then his master shall bring him unto the ^djudges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall ^ebore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷And if a man ^fsell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out ^gas the menservants do. ⁸If she ^†please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, ^hand her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. ¹¹And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

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b Deut. 15:12. Jer. 34:14. Comp. Lev. 25:29–41.
†Heb. with his body.
†Heb. saying shall say.
dch. 12:12 marg. & 22:8, 9, 28 marg.
eSo Ps. 40:6.
gver. 2, 3.
†Heb. be evil in the eyes of, &c. Gen. 28:8. & 38:10.

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