🔥WEB · Exodus 21:2

What does Exodus 21:2 mean?

"“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything."

— Exodus 21:2 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

2

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

3

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4

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.

5

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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