Exodus 21:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.”
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“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`When thou buyest a Hebrew servant--six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 21:2 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
- Genesis 27:36So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- Exodus 12:44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- Exodus 22:3But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.
- Leviticus 25:39If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
- Leviticus 25:54Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
- Deuteronomy 15:1At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
- Deuteronomy 15:12If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
- Deuteronomy 15:18Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
- Deuteronomy 31:10Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
- 2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
- Nehemiah 5:1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
- Nehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
- Jeremiah 34:8After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
- Jeremiah 34:10So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
- Jeremiah 34:14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
- Matthew 18:25Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
- 1 Corinthians 6:20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
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