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Exodus, Chapter 21, verses 1-11

¹ “Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:	1 Exo 24:3 Exo 24:4 Deu 4:14 Deu 6:1
² “If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. ³ If he comes^a Lit by himselfalone, he shall go out^b Lit by himselfalone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ 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 go out^c Lit by himselfalone. ⁵ But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’ ⁶ then his master shall bring him to^dGod, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.	2 Lev 25:39-43 Deu 15:12-18 Jer 34:14 5 Deu 15:16 Deu 15:17
⁷ “If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to^e Lit go outgo free as the male slaves^f Lit go outdo. ⁸ If she is^g Lit baddispleasing in the eyes of her master^hwho designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of hisⁱ Lit dealing treacherouslyunfairness to her. ⁹ If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her^j Lit fleshfood, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. ¹¹ If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.	7 Neh 5:5 Exo 21:2 Exo 21:3 10 Co1 7:3 Co1 7:5


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