21 ¹ "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

21 ² When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 21 ³ If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 21 ⁴ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone. 21 ⁵ But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' 21 ⁶ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

21 ⁷ "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 21 ⁸ If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her. 21 ⁹ If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 21 ¹⁰ If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 21 ¹¹ And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.