Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:
Exodus 21:2 - King James 2000 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you buy a Hebrew servant [as the result of debt or theft], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, paying nothing. [Lev. 25:39.] American Standard Version (1901) If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. Common English Bible When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he will serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he will go free without any payment. Catholic Public Domain Version If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you; in the seventh, he shall depart freely, without charge. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. |
Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, who were sold unto the nations; and will you even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.
But since he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
It shall not seem hard unto you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,