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Exodus 21:1-11

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1 “These are the regulations you must present to Israel.
1 “These are the laws you are to set before them:
2 “If you buy a Hebrew slave, he may serve for no more than six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
3 If he was single when he became your slave, he shall leave single. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife must be freed with him.
3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
4 “If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave and they had sons or daughters, then only the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5 But the slave may declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I don’t want to go free.’
5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
6 If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door or doorpost and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will serve his master for life.
6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.
8 If she does not satisfy her owner, he must allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.
8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.
9 But if the slave’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave but as a daughter.
9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.
10 “If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy.
10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
11 If he fails in any of these three obligations, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.
11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
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