Exodus 21:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ If his master has given him a wife and she has had sons or daughters, the woman and her children will be the property of the master and he will go out alone.

⁵ “If the slave says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I do not want to go free,’ ⁶ then the master will bring him before God. He will bring him to a door or a doorpost and will bore a hole in his ear with an awl. He will be his slave forever.