Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you; in the seventh, he shall depart freely, without charge.
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1“These are the judgments which you shall place before them:
Cross References
Genesis 27:36But he responded: “Justly is his name called Jacob. For he has supplanted me yet another time. My birthright he took away before, and now, this second time, he has stolen my blessing.” And again, he said to his father, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me also?”
Exodus 22:3But if he did this when the sun was risen, he has perpetrated a homicide, and he shall die. If he does not have the means to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.
Leviticus 25:54But if, by these means, he will not be able to be redeemed, then in the year of the Jubilee he shall depart with his children.
Deuteronomy 15:12When your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, has been sold to you, and has served you for six years, in the seventh year you shall set him free.
Deuteronomy 31:10And he instructed them, saying: “After seven years, in the year of remission, at the solemnity of the Feast of Tabernacles,
Nehemiah 5:1And there occurred a great outcry of the people and 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 →