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.
5. “But if the slave declares: ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’