Exodus 21:2

New International Version

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

2 Kings 4:1

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:8

and said: “As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.

Exodus 12:44

Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,

Exodus 21:3

If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.

Exodus 21:7

“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

Exodus 22:3

but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. “Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

Leviticus 25:54

“ ‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

Matthew 18:25

Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

1 Corinthians 6:20

you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Deuteronomy 15:1

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

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,