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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Related Verses
“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 he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.”
“At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.”
“But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:”
“And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.”