Exodus 21:5

New International Version

“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’

Cross References

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.

Exodus 21:6

then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

Isaiah 26:13

Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.