1 These are the case laws that you should set before them:
2 When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he will serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he will go free without any payment.
3 If he came in single, he will leave single. If he came in married, then his wife will leave with him.
4 If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He will leave single.
5 However, if the slave clearly states, "I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I don’t want to go free,"
6 then his master will bring him before God. He will bring him to the door or the doorpost. There his master will pierce his ear with a pointed tool, and he will serve him as his slave for life.