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.
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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.
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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.
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“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
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then his master must take him before the judges.[a] 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.