Exodus 21:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

Genesis 27:36

And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Exodus 12:44

But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

Exodus 21:3

If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

Exodus 21:7

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

Exodus 22:3

But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

Leviticus 25:54

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

Matthew 18:25

So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.

1 Corinthians 6:20

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

Deuteronomy 15:1

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

Deuteronomy 15:18

Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents,