Exodus 21:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Law concerning Slaves

21 These are the ordinances that you shall set before them:

² When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt. ³ If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.