Exodus 21:1-11 ▼

1 These art the lawes whiche thou shalt set before them.

2 If thou bye a seruaunt that is an Hebrue, sixe yeres he shall serue, & in the seuenth, he shall go out free paying nothyng.

3 If he came alone, he shall go out alone: and yf he came maryed, his wyfe shall go out with hym.

4 And if his maister haue geuen hym a wyfe, and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters: then the wyfe and her chyldren shalbe her maisters, and he shall go out alone.

5 And yf the seruaunt say: I loue my maister, my wyfe, and my chyldren, I wyll not go out free:

6 His maister shall bryng hym vnto the iudges, and set hym to the doore or the doorepost, and his maister shal bore his eare through with a naule, and he shalbe his seruaunt for euer.

7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a seruaunt, she shal not go out as the men seruauntes do.

8 If she please not her maister, who hath nowe promised her mariage, then shall he let her redeeme her selfe: To sell her vnto a straunge nation shall he haue no power, seyng he despised her.

9 If he haue promysed her vnto his sonne to wyfe, he shall deale with her as men do with their daughters.

10 And if he take hym another wyfe: yet her foode, her rayment, and duetie of maryage shall he not minishe.

11 And if he do not these three vnto her, the shal she go out free & pay no money.