Exodus 21:2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in…”

Exodus 21:2

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

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

If thou bye an Ebrewe seruant, he shall serue sixe yeres, and in the seuenth he shall go out free, for nothing.

Darby Translation

If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Young's Literal Translation

'When thou buyest a Hebrew servant — six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

Bible in Basic English

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

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Cross references

“an Hebrew”

Exodus 12:44 Exodus 22:3 Nehemiah 5:1–5 Nehemiah 5:8 Genesis 27:28 Genesis 27:36

Exodus 12:44 · BSB

But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

Exodus 22:3 · BSB

But 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.

Nehemiah 5:1–5 · BSB

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Nehemiah 5:8 · BSB

and 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 no…

Genesis 27:28 · BSB

May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:36 · BSB

So 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?”

“and in the”

Deuteronomy 15:12–15 Deuteronomy 15:18 Deuteronomy 15:1 Deuteronomy 31:10 Jeremiah 34:8–17 Leviticus 25:40–43

Deuteronomy 15:12–15 · BSB

If 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 15:18 · BSB

Do 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 15:1 · BSB

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Deuteronomy 31:10 · BSB

Then 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,

Jeremiah 34:8–17 · BSB

After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

Leviticus 25:40–43 · BSB

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

3If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.

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