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| 1 | "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. | Treatment of Slaves. Ex.21.1-11 |
| 2 | When you buy a Hebrew slave, 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 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 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 serve him for life. | |
| 7 | "When a man 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 for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly 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 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. | |
