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Exodus 21:1-6 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. Now these are the judgments which you will set before them.

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

3. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife will go out with him.

4. If 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 will go out by himself.

5. However, if the servant plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free,”

6. then his master will bring him to the judges, then he shall also bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

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