Exodus 21:2

Laws About Slaves

¹ "And these are the regulations that you will set before them. ² 'If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go out as free for nothing. ³ If he comes in single, he will go out single. If he is the husband of a wife, his wife will go out with him.

Seventh Year

Deuteronomy 15:12-15

If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and [he or she] has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person [out] {free}.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not be hard in your eyes {when you send him forth free}, because for six years he has served you [worth] twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you {in whatever you will do}.

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:36

Then he said, "{Isn't that why he is named Jacob}? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

Exodus 12:44

But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

Exodus 22:3

(If the sun has risen over him, [there is] bloodguilt for him. He will make full restitution. If {he does not have enough}, he will be sold for his theft.

Leviticus 25:39-45

" 'And if your countryman [who is] with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, {you shall not treat him as a slave}.

Deuteronomy 15:1

"At the end of seven years you shall grant remission of debt.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Then Moses commanded them, {saying}, "At the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths,

2 Kings 4:1

A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives [against] their Jewish brothers.

Nehemiah 5:8

and I said to them: "We ourselves have bought back our brothers the Jews who were sold to the nations as we were able. But now you yourselves have sold your brothers so they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word [to say].

Jeremiah 34:8-17

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after king Zedekiah {made} a covenant with all the people who [were] in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them,

Matthew 18:25

And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

1 Corinthians 6:20

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.