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"If you buy ^(C1)a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you.

"If he comes ^(F1)alone, he shall leave ^(F1)alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him.

"If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave ^(F1)alone.

"But ^(C1)if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,'

then his master shall bring him to ^(F1)God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an ^(F2)awl; and he shall serve him permanently.