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Exodus 21:5-11 New International Version (NIV)

5. “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’

6. then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

7. “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

8. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

9. If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

10. If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.

11. If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.