Servitude and obligation

1These are the judgments that you shall set before them:

2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out free, without payment.

3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is 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 belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

5But if the servant 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 shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

7And if a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants go out.

8If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master, who has not designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9But if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the rights of daughters.

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

11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without payment of money.