12If your brother the Hebrew or the Hebrew woman is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him away free from you.13When you send him away free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed.14You shall furnish him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress, with which the LORD your God has blessed you; you shall give it to him.15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you this matter today.16If he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,17then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant for life; you shall do the same also for your maidservant.18Do not regard it as a hardship when you send him away free from you, because he has served you six years at double the wages of a hired worker, and the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.