1, ¶ Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2, If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3, If he came in by himself,1 he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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.
5, And if the servant shall2 plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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. |
