Chapter 21
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If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without payment.
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If he comes in single, he goes out single. If he is married, then his wife goes out with him.
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If his master gives him a woman and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
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But if the servant says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,"
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And his master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve forever.
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And if a man sells his daughter as a maidservant, she shall not go out as the male servants go out.
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If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master, to whom he had promised her, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, in his betraying her.
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And if he designates her for his son, he shall do to her according to the judgment for daughters.
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If he takes another wife for himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
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And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without silver.