Deuteronomy 15:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “If a member of your community, whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and works for you six years, in the seventh year you shall set that person free.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

Common English Bible

¹² If any of your fellow Hebrews, male or female, sell themselves into your service, they can work for you for six years, but in the seventh year you must set them free from your service.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² When your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, has been sold to you, and has served you for six years, in the seventh year you shall set him free.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² When thy brother, a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free.

Deuteronomy 15:12 Cross References

Exodus 21:1

“These are the ordinances that you shall set before them:

Jeremiah 34:14

“Every seventh year each of you must set free any Hebrews who have been sold to you and have served you six years; you must set them free from your service.” But your ancestors did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Deuteronomy 15:1

“Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.

Deuteronomy 15:13

And when you send a male slave out from you a free person, you shall not send him out empty-handed.