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then his master shall bring him unto [a]God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a [b]maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. If she please not her master, [c]who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Or, the judges
  2. Exodus 21:7 Or, bondwoman
  3. Exodus 21:8 Another reading is, so that he hath not espoused her