Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
3If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: if he had a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.
Leviticus 25:54And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, have been sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of tabernacles,
Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren 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 →