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.”
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
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Cross-References
“And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.”
“And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:”
“Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:”
“At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.”
“And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.”