(A)If thou buy an Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free for [a]nothing.

If he [b]came himself alone, he shall go out himself alone: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master hath given him a wife and she hath borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her [c]master’s, but he shall go out himself alone.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:2 Paying no money for his liberty.
  2. Exodus 21:3 Not having wife nor children.
  3. Exodus 21:4 Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth.

Hebrew Servants(A)(B)

“If you buy a Hebrew servant,(C) he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free,(D) 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. 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.

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