Exodus 21:4-6

Living Bible

⁴ But if his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they have sons or daughters, the wife and children shall still belong to the master, and he shall go out by himself free.

⁵ “But if the man shall plainly declare, ‘I prefer my master, my wife, and my children, and I would rather not go free,’ ⁶ then his master shall bring him before the judges and shall publicly bore his ear with an awl, and after that he will be a slave forever.