May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
Exodus 21:2 - Revised Standard Version When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, 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. |
May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
Esau said, “Is he not 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.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brethren who have been sold to the nations; but you even sell your brethren that they may be sold to us!” They were silent, and could not find a word to say.
but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.
If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
“If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him;
And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.
And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of booths,