1. NOW THESE are the ordinances you [Moses] shall set before [the Israelites].
2. If you buy a Hebrew servant [as the result of debt or theft], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, paying nothing. [Lev. 25:39.]
3. If he came [to you] by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he came married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4. If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out [of your service] alone.
5. But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free,