1 “Now these are the ordinances which you will set before them.
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go free, without payment.
3 If he comes in by himself, he is to go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife will go out with him.
4 If his master gave him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master’s, and he will go free by himself.
5 “But if the servant plainly states, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, and I will not go out free,’
6 then his master is to bring him to God, then take him to a door or to a doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear through with an awl, and he will serve him forever.
7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she is not to go free as the male servants do.