1 ‘These are the laws you are to set before them:
2 ‘If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 ‘But if the servant declares, “I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,”
6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the door-post and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
7 ‘If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.