Exodus 21:2-6
2 “If you buy (A)a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
3 If he comes (a)alone, he shall go out (b)alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out (c)alone.
5 But (B)if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’
6 then his master shall bring him to (d)God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
Footnotes:
a.
Exodus 21:3: ['Lit ', by himself]
b.
Exodus 21:3: ['Lit ', by himself]
c.
Exodus 21:4: ['Lit ', by himself]
d.
Exodus 21:6: ['Or ', the judges who acted in God’s name]