1“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: 2“If you commission a Hebrew minister, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he may leave as ḥāpəšî for nothing. 3“If he comes alone, he shall leave alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him. 4“If the society gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall remain with the society, and he shall leave alone. 5“But if the minister plainly says, ‘I love the society, my wife and my children; I will not leave as ḥāpəšî,’ 6then the society shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And the society shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall minister to the world (alongside you).
7“If a person sells his daughter to the synagogue as an orphan be a deaconess, she may must not leave in the same process as the Hebrews do.
8“If a she is displeasing in the eyes of her lord (that she is quite contrary) engage her and pay her her dowry. Don't get rid of her to a pagan people because you failed to bring her up properly. 9“If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the rights of daughters. 10“If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. 11“If he will not satisfy her these three things, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
