Exodus 21:1-11 ▼

1 NOW these are the judgments which you shall set before them.

2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve you; and in the seventh year he shall go out free from your house without price.

3 If he came in single, he shall go out single; if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be his master's and he shall go out alone.

5 And if the servant shall say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free;

6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

7 And when a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out free as the menservants do.

8 If her master hates her, so that he will not take her to himself as a wife, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he takes her for wife to his son, then he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he takes to himself another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothes, and her conjugal rights.

11 And if be does not these three things to her, then she shall go out free without price.