² “If you buy ^(A)a 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 ^[a]alone, he shall go out ^[b]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 ^[c]alone. ⁵ But ^(B)if 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 ^[d]God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. Then his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

¹² “^(A)If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall ^[a]let him go to be free from you. ¹³ When you ^[b]let him go to be free from you, you shall not ^[c]let him go empty-handed. ¹⁴ You shall furnish him generously from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as Yahweh your God has blessed you. ¹⁵ And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you ^[d]this today. ¹⁶ And it will be that, ^(B)if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you; ¹⁷ then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

¹⁸ “It shall not seem hard in your sight when you ^[e]let him go to be free from you, for he has given you six years with ^[f]double the service of a hired man; so Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you do.

²² But Solomon ^(A)did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.