Exodus 21:2 · KJV
“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.”
— Exodus 21:2
Now these {are} the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. {by himself: Heb. with his body}
Exodus 21 — Context
Now these {are} the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. {by himself: Heb. with his body}
4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:12-15
{And} if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Exodus 12:44
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Deuteronomy 15:18
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant {to thee}, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
Deuteronomy 15:1
At the end of {every} seven years thou shalt make a release.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing {to answer}.
Deuteronomy 31:10
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of {every} seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Leviticus 25:39-45
And if thy brother {that dwelleth} by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: {compel...: Heb. serve thyself with him with the service, etc}
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