Exodus 21:1-11

1"Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.

2When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.

5But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

6then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

7"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.

10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

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