Exodus 21:2

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 (15)

  • Deuteronomy 15:12–15 (6)

    If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him

  • Exodus 12:44 (4)

    But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

  • Deuteronomy 15:18 (4)

    Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of

  • Leviticus 25:39–45 (3)

    If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

  • Deuteronomy 31:10 (3)

    Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, dur

  • Nehemiah 5:8 (3)

    and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling yo

  • Deuteronomy 15:1 (3)

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

  • Exodus 22:3 (3)

    But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing

  • Nehemiah 5:1–5 (3)

    About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

  • Jeremiah 34:8–17 (3)

    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah

  • Genesis 27:36 (2)

    So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has tak

  • 1 Corinthians 6:20 (2)

    you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

  • 2 Kings 4:1 (2)

    Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know th

  • Genesis 27:28 (2)

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

  • Matthew 18:25 (2)

    Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children an