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Ex 21:1: Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Ex 21:2: If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Ex 21:3: If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Ex 21:4: If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
Ex 21:5: And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Ex 21:6: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
Ex 21:7: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Ex 21:8: If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Ex 21:9: And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
Ex 21:10: If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Ex 21:11: And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.