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his master will present him to God[a] and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever.

“‘And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out. If she does not please her master[b] who selected her, he will allow her to be redeemed; he has no authority to sell her to foreign people, since he has dealt treacherously with her.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Or “present him to the judges”
  2. Exodus 21:8 Literally “bad in the eyes of her master”