Exodus 21:2
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Exo 21:2
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"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
Exo 21:3
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~"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.
Exo 21:4
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~"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.
Exo 21:5
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~"But if the slave plainly says, `I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'
Exo 21:6
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then his master shall bring him to (Or {the judges who acted in God's name}) 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.
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