Exodus 21:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man  without paying anything.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not regard it as a hardship  when you set him free, because he worked for you six years #– #worth twice the wages of a hired worker. Then the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Exodus 12:44

But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him.

Nehemiah 5:8

and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’  They remained silent and could not say a word.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, ‘At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation,  during the Festival of Shelters,

Deuteronomy 15:1

‘At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Exodus 22:3

But if this happens after sunrise, the householder is guilty of bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution. If he is unable, he is to be sold because of his theft.

1 Corinthians 6:20

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

Matthew 18:25

Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’

Genesis 27:36

So he said, ‘Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?  , For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.’ Then he asked, ‘Haven’t you saved a blessing for me? ’

Genesis 27:28

May God give to you – from the dew of the sky and from the richness of the land   – an abundance of grain and new wine.

Exodus 21:3

If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with  a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

Exodus 21:7

‘When a man sells his daughter as a concubine,  she is not to leave as the male slaves do.

Leviticus 25:54

If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the Year of Jubilee.