Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
1And these are the laws of justice which thou shalt set before them.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said, Hath he been therefore named Jacob, because he hath supplanted me these two times? my right of first-born he took away; 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 blood shed for him; he shall make full restitution; if he have nothing, then shall he be sold for his theft.
Leviticus 25:54And if he be not redeemed by [one of] these means: then shall he go out in the year of the jubilee, both he, and his children with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12If thy brother, the Hebrew, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year shalt thou let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, at the fixed time of the year of release, on the feast of tabernacles,
Nehemiah 5:1And there arose a great outcry 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 →