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.

³⁹ ‘^(A)If a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. ⁴⁰ He shall be with you as a hired man, as ^(B)if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers. ⁴² For they are My slaves whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold in a slave sale. ^43 (C)You shall not have dominion over him with brutality, but you shall fear your God.

¹⁴ “^(A)At the end of seven years each of you shall let his Hebrew brother go who ^[a]has been sold to you and has served you six years, and you shall let him go to be free from you; but your fathers ^(B)did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.