Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 21:5-10 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. And if the servant will say, 'I love my lord, and my wife and children, I will not depart freely,'

6. then his lord shall make an offering for him to the heavens, and it shall be applied to the door and the posts, and he will pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall be his servant in perpetuity.

7. If anyone sells his daughter to be a servant, she shall not depart as a female servant is accustomed to go out.

8. If she displeases the eyes of her lord, to whom she had been delivered, he shall dismiss her. But he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, even if he despises her.

9. But if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall treat her according to the custom with daughters.

10. And if he takes another for him, he shall provide to the maiden a marriage, and clothing, and he shall not refuse the price of her chastity.