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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said: 'Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.' And he said: 'Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?'
Exodus 22:3(22-2) If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him — he shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Leviticus 25:54And if he be not redeemed by any of these means, 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, be 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, 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 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 →