Exodus 21:1-4 ▼

1 These are the ordinances that you must set before them:”

2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.

3 If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.”