Exodus 21:3-7
Exodus 21:3
If he comes alone, he shall leave alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him.
Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave alone.
Exodus 21:5
But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’
Exodus 21:6
then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
Exodus 21:7
“Now if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.