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Exodus 21:4-9 Good News Bible (GNB)

4. If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man shall leave by himself.

5. But if the slave declares that he loves his master, his wife, and his children and does not want to be set free,

6. then his master shall take him to the place of worship. There he is to make him stand against the door or the door-post and pierce his ear. Then he will be his slave for life.

7. “If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are.

8. If she is sold to someone who intends to make her his wife, but he doesn't like her, then she is to be sold back to her father; her master cannot sell her to foreigners, because he has treated her unfairly.

9. If a man buys a female slave to give to his son, he is to treat her like a daughter.

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