The Law states: “If the slave should insistently say, ‘ I really love my master, my wife and my sons; I do not want to go out as one set free, ’ then his master must bring him near to the true God and must bring him up against the door or the doorpost; and his master must pierce his ear through with an awl, and he must be his slave to time indefinite. ” ​ — Ex.
בתורה נאמר: ” אם אמור יאמר העבד, ’ אהבתי את אדוני, את אשתי ואת בניי.