1. These are the ordinances you shall lay before them.
2. When you purchase a Hebrew slave, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he shall leave as a free person without any payment.
3. If he comes into service alone, he shall leave alone; if he comes with a wife, his wife shall leave with him.
4. But if his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to her master and the man shall leave alone.