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The Book of Exodus, Chapter 21, Verse 1

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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
King James Version
Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
American Standard Version
Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
New English Translation
The Decisions“These are the decisions that you will set before them:
World English Bible
"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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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.
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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.
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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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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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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
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If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
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And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.