Exodus 21:2

Good News Translation

If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years. In the seventh year he is to be set free without having to pay anything.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile! May he give you plenty of grain and wine!

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the first-born son, and now he has taken away my blessing. Haven't you saved a blessing for me?”

2 Kings 4:1

The widow of a member of a group of prophets went to Elisha and said, “Sir, my husband has died! As you know, he was a God-fearing man, but now a man he owed money to has come to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.”

Nehemiah 5:8

and said, “As far as we have been able, we have been buying back our Jewish relatives who had to sell themselves to foreigners. Now you are forcing your own relatives to sell themselves to you, their own people!” The leaders were silent and could find nothing to say.

Exodus 12:44

but any slave that you have bought may eat it if you circumcise him first.

Exodus 21:3

If he was unmarried when he became your slave, he is not to take a wife with him when he leaves; but if he was married when he became your slave, he may take his wife with him.

Exodus 21:7

“If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to be set free, as male slaves are.

Leviticus 25:54

If they are not set free in any of these ways, they and their children must be set free in the next Year of Restoration.

Matthew 18:25

The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt.

1 Corinthians 6:20

he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.

Deuteronomy 15:1

“At the end of every seventh year you are to cancel the debts of those who owe you money.

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not be resentful when you set slaves free; after all, they have served you for six years at half the cost of hired servants. Do this, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 31:10

He commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, when the year that debts are canceled comes around, read this aloud at the Festival of Shelters.