Exodus 21:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: 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

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and wine:

Genesis 27:36

And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead: and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

Exodus 12:44

but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

Exodus 21:3

If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:7

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

Exodus 22:3

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him: he should make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Leviticus 25:54

And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, he, and his children with him.

Matthew 18:25

But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

1 Corinthians 6:20

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of an hireling hath he served thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,