Exo 21:2-6 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ 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 .

a Lev 25:39-43; Deut 15:12-18; Jer 34:14

Exodus 21:2-6

2 “If you buy ^aa 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 ^{▼▼ Lit by himself}alone, he shall go out ^{▼▼ Lit by himself}alone; 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 ^{▼▼ Lit by himself}alone. 5 “But ^eif 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 ^{▼▼ Or the judges who acted in God’s name}God, 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.