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Now, these are the regulations which thou shalt put before them.

When thou shalt acquire a servant who is a Hebrew, six years, shall he serve, - but in the seventh shall he go out freely - for nought.

If, by himself, he came in, by himself, shall he go out, - if he was married, then shall his wife go out with him.

If his lord gave him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her lords, and, he shall go out by himself.

But, if the servant shall plainly say, I love my lord, and my wife and my sons, - I will not go out free,

then shall his lord bring him near unto God, and shall bring him near unto the door, or unto the door-post, - and his lord shall pierce his ear with an awl, so shall he serve him all his life.

And when a man shall sell iris daughter to be a handmaid, she shall not go out according to the out-going of the men-servants,

If she is uncomely in the eyes of her lord, who hath not assigned her in marriage, then shall he suffer her to be redeemed: to a strange people, shall he not have power to sell her in that he hath dealt treacherously with her.

And if to his soul he assign her, according to the custom for daughters, shall he do for her.

If he take to himself another, her food her clothing, and her marriage-right, shall he not withdraw.

But if these three, he will not do for her, then shall she go out for nought, without silver.