Exodus 21:5

21:5 But if the servant should declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

tn The imperfect with the infinitive absolute means that the declaration is unambiguous, that the servant will clearly affirm that he wants to stay with the master. Gesenius says that in a case like this the infinitive emphasizes the importance of the condition on which some consequence depends (GKC 342-43 §113.o).

tn Or taken as a desiderative imperfect, it would say, “I do not want to go out free.”