Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
1And these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
Cross References
Genesis 27:36And he said, Rightly was his name called Jacob, for behold! this second time has he supplanted me; he has both taken my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing; and Esau said to his father, Have you not left a blessing for me, father?
Exodus 22:3But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if + 22:3 Gr. he. a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.
Leviticus 25:54And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.
Deuteronomy 15:12And if your brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out free from you.
Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Nehemiah 5:1And the cry of the people and their wives was great 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 →