Exodus 21:2-11 Hebrew Servants
When an Isrealite bought a Hebrew servant they were to work for them for six years. The seventh year the servant was to be set free. If the servant had a wife they would be set free together.
Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
If the man decides that he loves his master and his family and that he wants to say then the master will take him before the judge. He would have an ear pierced and be the masters for life.
If the servant is a girl there are different rules:
Exodus 21:7-11
“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
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