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“But if the servant plainly states, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, and I will not go out free,’ then his master is to bring him to God,[a] 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.

“If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she is not to go free as the male servants do.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Heb. Elohim, lit. “God, gods, princes or judges.”