Exodus 21:1-11 - Regulations Regarding Hebrew Slaves
1 And these the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve: and in the seventh he shall go forth free gratuitously. 3 If he shall come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he possessed a wife, and his wife shall go forth with him. 4 If his lord shall give to hint a wife, and she brought to him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be to her lord, and he shall go forth by himself.
5 And if saying, the servant shall say, I loved my lord, my wife and my sons; I will not go forth free: 6 And his lord brought him near to God, and he brought him near to the door, or to the door-post, and his lord pierced his ear with an awl; and he served him forever.
7 And if a man shall sell his daughter for a maid, she shall not go forth as the servants went forth. 8 If evil in the eyes of her lord, he did not betroth her and he ransomed her: to a strange people he shall not have power to sell her, in his acting deceitfully by her. 9 And if to a son he shall betroth her, according to the judgment of daughters he shall do to her. 10 If he shall take to him another, her food and her covering and her cohabitation he shall not take away. 11 And if he shall not do these three to her, she shall go forth gratuitously without silver.