Devine Scripture

Exodus 21:2

Exodus chapter 21 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Context

v.1Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

v.2This passage

v.3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Kings 4:1

    Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

  • Genesis 27:28

    And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and new wine:

  • Exodus 12:44

    but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

  • Deuteronomy 31:10

    And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

  • Deuteronomy 15:1

    At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

  • Deuteronomy 15:12

    If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.