¹² If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

¹⁴ At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

³⁹ And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

⁴⁰ But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

⁴¹ Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

² If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

³ If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

⁴ If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

⁵ But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

⁶ Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

¹ At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

³⁵ Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

³⁶ If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.