Thematic Bible: Israelite bondservants set free in
Thematic Bible
Sabbatic year » Israelite bondservants set free in
'If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go out as free for nothing.
If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and [he or she] has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person [out] {free}.
"At [the] end of seven years you must let go each one his fellow countryman, the Hebrew who has been sold to you and who has served you six years, and you must let him go free from you." But your ancestors did not listen to me, and they did not incline their ears.