Exodus 21:4-6

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴ “If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s. But he shall go out by himself.

⁵ “But, if the servant says this: ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free,’

⁶ “then his master shall bring him to the judges and bring him to the door (or to the post) and his master shall pierce his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.