And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (1937)
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.Exodus 21:6 KJV
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.Exodus 21:4 KJV