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Now these are the Iudgements which thou shalt set before them.

If thou buy an Hebrew seruant, sixe yeeres he shall serue, and in the seuenth he shall goe out free for nothing.

If he came in by himselfe, he shal goe out by himselfe: if he were married, then his wife shall goe out with him.

If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her masters, and he shall go out by himselfe.

And if the seruant shall plainely say, I loue my master, my wife, and my children, I will not goe out free:

Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, hee shall also bring him to the doore, or vnto the doore post, and his master shall boare his eare through with an aule, and he shall serue him for euer.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a mayd seruant, shee shall not goe out as the men seruants doe.

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himselfe, then shall he let her be redeemed: To sell her vnto a strange nation hee shall haue no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

And if he haue betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her after the maner of daughters.

If he take him another wife, her food, her rayment, and her duety of mariage shall he not diminish.

And if he doe not these three vnto her, then shall she goe out free without money.