Laws about Slaves

“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man[a] without paying anything.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:2 Lit to go forth

39 “If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you,(A) you must not force him to do slave labor.

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The Widow’s Oil Multiplied

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets(A) cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.(B) Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.”(C)

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We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.(A) Some of our daughters are already enslaved,(B) but we are powerless[a] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

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  1. 5:5 Lit but there is not the power in our hand

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.”(A) They remained silent and could not say a word.(B)

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42 Since they could not pay it back,(A) he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”

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