Exodus 21:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² “When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² If you buy a Hebrew servant [as the result of debt or theft], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, paying nothing. [Lev. 25:39.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Common English Bible

² When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he will serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he will go free without any payment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you; in the seventh, he shall depart freely, without charge.

Exodus 21:2 Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:18

“Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

Exodus 12:44

but any slave who has been purchased may eat of it after he has been circumcised;

Nehemiah 5:8

and said to them, “As far as we were able, we have bought back our Jewish kindred who had been sold to other nations, but now you are selling your own kin, who must then be bought back by us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, “Every seventh year, in the scheduled year of remission, during the Festival of Booths,

Deuteronomy 15:1

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

Exodus 22:3

but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred.) The thief shall make full restitution or, if unable to do so, shall be sold for the theft.

1 Corinthians 6:20

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

Matthew 18:25

and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

Exodus 21:3

If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:7

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

Leviticus 25:54

And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go out in the Jubilee year.