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Primary Verses:
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Exodus 21:3-6
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"If he came in by himself, he
shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his
wife shall go out with him. If his master have given
him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the
wife and her children shall be her master's, and he
shall go out by himself.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my
master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out
free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges;
he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door
post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an
aul; and he shall serve him for ever."
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Deuteronomy 15:12-17
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"And if thy brother, an Hebrew
man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve
thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let
him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out
free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and
out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that
wherewith YHVH thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give
unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt, and YHVH thy God redeemed
thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
And it shall be, if
he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because
he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with
thee; Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it
through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy
servant for ever. And also unto thy
maidservant thou shalt do likewise."
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