Exodus 21

¹Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

²If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shall go out free, for nothing.

³If he came himselfe alone, he shall goe out himselfe alone: if hee were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

⁴If his master haue giuen him a wife, and she hath borne him sonnes or daughters, he wife and her children shalbe her masters, but he shall goe out himselfe alone.

⁵But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

⁶Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, and set him to the dore, or to the poste, and his master shall bore his eare through with a nawle, and he shall serue him for euer.

⁷Likewise if a man sell his daughter to be a seruant, she shall not goe out as the men seruantes doe.

⁸If shee please not her master, who hath betrothed her to him selfe, then shall hee cause to buy her: hee shall haue no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he despised her.

⁹But if he hath betrothed her vnto his sonne, he shall deale with her according to the custome of the daughters.

¹⁰If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

¹¹And if he do not these three vnto her, the shall she go out free, paying no money.

¹²He that smiteth a man, and he die, shall dye the death.