Exodus 21:2-6
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i When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
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If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
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But j if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'
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then his master shall bring him to k God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:12
If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.
Leviticus 25:39 - 41
If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:16 - 17
But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you.
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Cross References
Psalms 82:6
I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you.
John 10:34 - 35
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
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