Exodus:21:1-11
rsv@Exodus:21:1 @ "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
rsv@Exodus:21:2 @ When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
rsv@Exodus:21:3 @ If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
rsv@Exodus:21:4 @ 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.
rsv@Exodus:21:5 @ But if the slave plainly says, `I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'
rsv@Exodus:21:6 @ 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.
rsv@Exodus:21:7 @ "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
rsv@Exodus:21:8 @ 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.
rsv@Exodus:21:9 @ If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
rsv@Exodus:21:10 @ If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
rsv@Exodus:21:11 @ And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
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