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.
In context
1 “These are the laws you are to set before them:
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. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
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- KJV King James Version
— Exodus 21:2 in the KJV
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- ESV English Standard Version
— Exodus 21:2 in the ESV
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.