Exodus 21:1-11

1“Now these are the 1ordinances which you are to set before them:

2“If you buy 2a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you. 3If he comes 3alone, he shall leave 4alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him. 4If 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 leave 5alone. 5But 6if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’ 6then his master shall bring him to 7God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an 8awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

7“Now 9if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to 10go free 11as the male slaves 12do. 8If she is 13displeasing in the eyes of her master 14who 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 15unfairness to her. 9And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. 10If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her 16food, her clothing, or 17her conjugal rights. 11But if he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go 18free for nothing, without payment of money.