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.

Exodus 21:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2|If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2When thou buyest a Hebrew servant — six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:2If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.