Exodus 21
Reading Exodus chapter 21 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall depart by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall depart with him.
4 If his master hath given him a wife, and she hath borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall depart by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not depart free:
6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door-post: and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man shall sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not depart as the men-servants do.
8 If she shall not please her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her to a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he hath betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he shall take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.
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