Exodus 21:2
If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
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1Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?
Exodus 22:3But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.
Leviticus 25:54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.
Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents,
Nehemiah 5:1Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen 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 →