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 servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

And in the

But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;

General references

And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.