But if the servant say thus, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,

Then his master shall bring him unto the [a]Judges, and set him to the [b]door, or to the post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him [c]forever.

Likewise if a man [d]sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Hebrew, gods.
  2. Exodus 21:6 Where the judges sat.
  3. Exodus 21:6 That is, to the year of Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year.
  4. Exodus 21:7 Constrained either by poverty, or else to the intent that the master should marry her.

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