Exodus 21:2-6
Laws about Slaves
2 “When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man(a) without paying anything.(A)
3 If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with(b) a wife, his wife is to leave with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.
Footnotes:
a.
Exodus 21:2: Lit to go forth
b.
Exodus 21:3: Lit he is the husband of
c.
Exodus 21:6: Or to God; that is, to His sanctuary or court