Exodus 21:2
When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;
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In Context
1And these [are] the judgments which you set before them:
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he says, “Is it because he whose name is called Jacob takes me by the heel these two times? He has taken my birthright; and behold, now he has taken my blessing”; he also says, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
Exodus 22:3if the sun has risen on him, blood [is] for him, he certainly repays; if he has nothing, then he has been sold for his theft;
Leviticus 25:54And if he is not redeemed in these [years], then he has gone out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12When your brother is sold to you, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he has served you [for] six years, then in the seventh year you send him away free from you.
Deuteronomy 31:10and Moses commands them, saying, “At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the Celebration of Shelters,
Nehemiah 5:1And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning 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 →