出埃及記 21:5 註釋：Rashi, Rabbeinu Bahya, Chizkuni & Kli Yakar

את אשתי MY WIFE — the Canaanitish handmaid mentioned above.

ואם אמר יאמר העבד, “if the servant shall say.” In Kidushin 22 the sages use the repetition of the word אמר as proof that unless the servant expresses this wish twice the employer is not entitled to pierce his ear to extend his period of service in his employ. The word העבד [which does not appear necessary in our context as the subject did not change. Ed.] means that he must express this desire before his period of service expired, i.e. while he was still an עבד (ibid.)

ואם אמר יאמר העבד, “and in the event that the ‘slave’ will say insistently, etc.;” from this verse we learn that he must express this wish already during those six years, and repeat it at the end of his term of service.