Deuteronomy 15:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

Cross References

Exodus 21:1

Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

Jeremiah 34:14

At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

Deuteronomy 15:13

And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands: