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Exodus

Laws About Slaves

Exodus 21:2-11
2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without payment. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he is master of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his lord gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her lord, and he shall go out single. 5But if the servant declares, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free." 6Then his lord shall bring him to God; he shall also bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his lord shall bore his ear with the awl, and he shall serve him forever. 7If a man sells his daughter as a maidservant, she shall not go out as the servants go out. 8If she is bad in her lord's eyes so that he does not appoint her for himself, then he shall ransom her to a foreign people; he shall not rule to sell her because of his acting treacherously with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall treat her according to the legal custom for daughters. 10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her flesh, her covering, or her cohabitation. 11If he fails to provide these three things for her, she shall go out free without payment of silver.
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