Exodus 21:2

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Summary

Exodus 21:2

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

An hebrew

And in the

General references

Exodus 21:11

Leviticus 25:40

Deuteronomy 15:1

Bible References

An hebrew

but every man's bondman that is bought for money let him be circumcised: then shall he eat it.

If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and new wine.

And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

But he not having anything to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and everything that he had, and that payment should be made.

for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

And in the

as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.

At the end of seven years thou shalt make a release,

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of tabernacles,

The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them:

General references

And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.

At the end of seven years thou shalt make a release,