Exodus 21:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 21:2 Cross References

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.

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 behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:8

and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brethren who have been sold to the nations; but you even sell your brethren that they may be sold to us!” They were silent, and could not find a word to say.

Exodus 12:44

but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.

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.

Exodus 22:3

“If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him;

Leviticus 25:54

And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

Matthew 18:25

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

1 Corinthians 6:20

you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Deuteronomy 15:1

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of booths,