Exodus 21:2
When thou dost purchase a servant, a son of Israel, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh go forth free, for nothing.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
1And these are the judgments which thou shalt set In order before them.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said, Rightly is his name called Jakob, he hath dealt subtilly with me these two times; my birthright he took, and, behold, now he hath received my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not left me a blessing?
Exodus 22:3If the thing stolen, from an ox to an ass, be found in his possession, they being alive, he shall restore two for one.
Leviticus 25:54But if he be not redeemed within those years, he shall go out at the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12If thy brother, a son of Israel, or a daughter of Israel, be sold to thee, and shall have served thee six years, in the seventh year let him go, a son of liberty, from thee.
Deuteronomy 31:10And Mosheh commanded them, saying: At the end of seven years, at the time of the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,
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 →