1. “Now these are the ordinances which you will set before them.
2. “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go free, without payment.
3. If he comes in by himself, he is to go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife will go out with him.
4. If his master gave him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master’s, and he will go free by himself.
5. “But if the servant plainly states, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, and I will not go out free,’
6. then his master is to bring him to God, then take him to a door or to a doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear through with an awl, and he will serve him forever.