Exodus 21:2

New Century Version

“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve you for six years. In the seventh year you are to set him free, and he will have to pay nothing.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you plenty of rain and good soil so that you will have plenty of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “Jacob is the right name for him. He has tricked me these two times. He took away my share of everything you own, and now he has taken away my blessing.” Then Esau asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

2 Kings 4:1

The wife of a man from the groups of prophets said to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead. You know he honored the Lord. But now the man he owes money to is coming to take my two boys as his slaves!”

Nehemiah 5:8

I said to them, “As much as possible, we have bought freedom for our fellow Jews who had been sold to foreigners. Now you are selling your fellow Jews to us!” The leaders were quiet and had nothing to say.

Exodus 12:44

If someone buys a slave and circumcises him, the slave may eat the Passover.

Exodus 21:3

If he is not married when he becomes your slave, he must leave without a wife. But if he is married when he becomes your slave, he may take his wife with him.

Exodus 21:7

“If a man sells his daughter as a slave, the rules for setting her free are different from the rules for setting the male slaves free.

Leviticus 25:54

“ ‘Even if no one buys him back, at the year of Jubilee, he and his children will become free.

Matthew 18:25

But the servant did not have enough money to pay his master, the king. So the master ordered that everything the servant owned should be sold, even the servant’s wife and children. Then the money would be used to pay the king what the servant owed.

1 Corinthians 6:20

because you were bought by God for a price. So honor God with your bodies.

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years, you must tell those who owe you anything that they do not have to pay you back.

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not think of it as a hard thing when you let your slaves go free. After all, they served you six years and did twice the work of a hired person. The Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Then Moses commanded them: “Read these teachings for all Israel to hear at the end of every seven years, which is the year to cancel what people owe. Do it during the Feast of Shelters, when all the Israelites will come to appear before the Lord your God and stand at the place he will choose.