Exodus 21:5-9
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.
Exodus 21:9
And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.