16 But if he says to you, 'I will not depart from you, because I love you and your house,' because it is good for him with you,

17 then thou shalt take an awl, and pierce his ear to the door; and he shall be thy servant for ever. Do the same with your servant.

18 Do not consider it grievous for yourself that you should let him go free from you, for in six years he earned you twice as much as the wages of a hireling; and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

19 Thou shalt consecrate to the LORD thy God every firstborn male that is born of thy herd, and of thy flock.

20 In the sight of the LORD thy God, thou shalt eat these things every year, and thou shalt eat thy family, in the place which the LORD [thy God] shall choose.

21 And if there be any blemish, or lameness, or blindness, or any other blemish, thou shalt not offer it as an offering to the LORD thy God,

22 but in thy gates thou shalt eat it; the unclean as well as the clean [can eat,] like a chamois and like a deer;

23 Only thou shalt not eat his blood: thou shalt pour it out on the ground as water.

Chapter 16

1 Thou shalt observe the month of Abib, and thou shalt keep the Passover unto the LORD thy God, for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God hath brought thee out of Egypt by night.

2 And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flocks and herds, in the place which the Lord shall choose, that his name may dwell therein.

3 Thou shalt not eat leavened meat with it; Seven days shalt thou eat with her unleavened bread, the bread of affliction: for thou hast gone out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember the day of thy departure from the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

4 Thou shalt have no leaven in all thy inheritance for seven days, neither shall there be anything of the flesh which thou didst sacrifice on the evening of the first day, that nothing shall remain until the morning.

5 Thou shalt not kill the Passover in any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God shall give thee;