Exodus 21:2-6 ▼

2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;

3 if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife has gone out with him;

4 if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goes out by himself.

5 And if the servant really says: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free,

6 then his lord has brought him near to God, and has brought him near to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord has bored his ear with an awl, and he has served him for all time.