Exodus 21:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:8

and said to them, “As far as we were able, we have bought back our Jewish kindred who had been sold to other nations, but now you are selling your own kin, who must then be bought back by us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

Exodus 12:44

but any slave who has been purchased may eat of it after he has been circumcised;

Exodus 21:3

If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:7

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

Exodus 22:3

but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred.) The thief shall make full restitution or, if unable to do so, shall be sold for the theft.

Leviticus 25:54

And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go out in the Jubilee year.

Matthew 18:25

and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.

1 Corinthians 6:20

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

Deuteronomy 15:1

“Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.

Deuteronomy 15:18

“Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, “Every seventh year, in the scheduled year of remission, during the Festival of Booths,