12 Lv 25.39-46.If any of you buy Israelites as slaves, you must set them free after six years. 13 And don’t just tell them they are free to leave— 14 give them sheep and goats and a good supply of grain and wine. The more the Lord has given you, the more you should give them. 15 I am commanding you to obey the Lord as a reminder that you were slaves in Egypt before he set you free. 16 But one of your slaves may say, "I love you and your family, and I would be better off staying with you, so please don’t make me leave." 17 Take the slave to the door of your house and push a sharp metal rod through one earlobe and into the door. Such slaves will belong to you for life, whether they are men or women.
18 Don’t complain when you have to set a slave free. After all, you got six years of service at half the cost of hiring someone to do the work.15.18 six years … work: Or "six years of service, and it cost you no more than if you had hired someone to do the work"; or "six years of service, for what you would have had to pay a worker for two years."
First-Born Animals
Leviticus 27:26,27; Numbers 18:15-18
Moses said to Israel: