Old TestamentExodusHebrew Servants · 21:1–1121:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
