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Exodus 21:4-8

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.

Exodus 21:8

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of his unfairness to her.