⁴“If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out ¹alone.

⁵“But ^aif the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’

⁶then his master shall bring him to ¹God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. Then his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

⁷“^aAnd if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to ¹go free ^bas the male slaves ²do.

⁸“If she is ¹displeasing in the eyes of her master ²who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his treachery to her.

⁹“And if he designates her for his son, he shall do to her according to the custom of daughters.

¹⁰“If he takes for himself another woman, he may not reduce her ¹food, her clothing, or ^aher conjugal rights.

¹¹“And if he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

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Footnotes

1Lit by himself
2Lit by himself
1Lit by himself
1Or the judges who acted in God’s name
1Lit go out
2Lit go out
1Lit bad
2Or so that he did not designate her
1Lit flesh

Cross references

a Lev 25:39–43; Deut 15:12–18; Jer 34:14
a Deut 15:16, 17
a Neh 5:5
b Ex 21:2, 3
a 1 Cor 7:3, 5