^2 (A)When you buy a Hebrew slave,^[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

³ If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

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.

⁵ But ^(A)if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

⁶ then his master shall bring him to ^(A)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 be his slave forever.

⁷ “When a man ^(A)sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

⁸ If she does not please her master, who has designated her^[a] for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

⁹ If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.

¹⁰ If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or ^(A)her marital rights.

¹¹ And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.