1. Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
2. If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3. If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4. If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5. But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6. then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
7. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
8. If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9. And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.