¹²If your relative^y who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out free.^z ¹³And when you send him out free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed. ¹⁴You shall generously supply him from among your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; according to that with which Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ¹⁵And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you thus today.^a ¹⁶And then if it will happen that he says to you, ‘I do not want to go out^b from you,’ because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you; ¹⁷then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you a slave forever;^c and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. ¹⁸It shall not be hard in your eyes when you send him forth free,^d because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you will do.^e

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Footnotes

yOr “brother”
zLiterally “free from with you”
aLiterally “the day”
bLiterally “I will not go out”
cLiterally “a slave of eternity”
dLiterally “in/at you to send him forth free from being with you”
eLiterally “in all of that you will do”