Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me?
Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. [A thief] shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Leviticus 25:54And if he is not redeemed by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12
Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If 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. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say,… Read the whole commentary →