Exodus 21:5
“And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:”
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.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Related Verses
“If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.”
“Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”