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But if the servant, in fact, says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I won’t go out a free man,’ then his master is to bring him before the judges[a] and he is to bring him to the door or to the doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear with an awl, and he is to serve him permanently.

“When a man sells his daughter as a servant, she won’t go out as the male servants do.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Or before God
  2. Exodus 21:7 The Heb. lacks as the male servants do