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Laws Concerning Servants

21 “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them.

“When you acquire a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go out a free man without paying anything. If he came in by himself,[a] he is to go out by himself. If he was married, his wife is to go out with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:3 Lit. with his body; i.e. single, and so throughout the chapter

21 “These are the laws(A) you are to set before them:

Hebrew Servants(B)(C)

“If you buy a Hebrew servant,(D) he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free,(E) without paying anything. 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.

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