KJV King James Version
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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Exodus 21:2
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
ASV American Standard Version
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘When thou buyest a Hebrew servant—six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;
Surrounding context — Exodus 21
1 Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
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כִּ֤יH3588 · kiforתִקְנֶה֙H7069 · qa.nahto buyעֶ֣בֶדH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveעִבְרִ֔יH5680 · iv.riHebrewשֵׁ֥שׁH8337 · sheshsixשָׁנִ֖יםH8141 · sha.nehyearיַעֲבֹ֑דH5647 · a.vadto serveוּבַ֨שְּׁבִעִ֔תH7637 · she.vi.iseventhיֵצֵ֥אH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeלַֽחָפְשִׁ֖יH2670 · choph.shifreeחִנָּֽם׃H2600 · chin.namfor nothing
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 15:12-15[And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.Exodus 12:44But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.Deuteronomy 15:18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.Nehemiah 5:8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].Nehemiah 5:1-5And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.Jeremiah 34:8-17[This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;Leviticus 25:39-45And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:Deuteronomy 15:1At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release.Deuteronomy 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.1 Corinthians 6:20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.Matthew 18:25But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.Genesis 27:36And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?2 Kings 4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.Genesis 27:28Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
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