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"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
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When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
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If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone.
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But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'
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then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.
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"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
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If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her.