Exodus 21:1–9
1 “Now these are the aordinances which you are to set before them:
2 “If you buy aa Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
3 “If he comes 1alone, he shall go out 1alone; if he is the husband of a wife, 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 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,’
6 then his master shall bring him to 1God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
7 “aIf a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to 1go free bas the male slaves 1do.
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 3unfairness to her.
9 “If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.