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.
“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.Exodus 21:7 NIV
“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’Exodus 21:5 NIV