New American Standard Bible

Exodus 21:3-14 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3. If he comes alone, he shall go out 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 alone.

5. But 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 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.

7. "If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

8. If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.

9. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

10. If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

11. If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

12. "He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

13. But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

14. If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die.