“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 21:2 in context
Exodus 21:1–5
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“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
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“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
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If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
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But 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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