Exo 21:5-6 | ESV | STEP | But if the slave plainly says , I love my master , my wife , and my children ; I will not go out free ,

Exodus 21:5-6

5 But ^aif the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to ^bGod, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.