Exodus 21:2–11

²‘When thou buyest a Hebrew servant—six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought; ³if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him; ⁴if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goeth out by himself.

⁵‘And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free; ⁶then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him—to the age.

⁷‘And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants; ⁸if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

⁹‘And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

¹⁰‘If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw; ¹¹and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.