Exodus 21:2 Parallel Translations

"Whenever you buy a Hebrew slave, he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man, without paying for his freedom.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

'When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

Exodus 21:2 Cross References

XREF:

Leviticus 25:39 'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.

Deuteronomy 15:12 "If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free.

Jeremiah 34:14 "At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for {a} nothing.
(a) Paying no money for his freedom.

WES:

21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant - Either sold by him or his parents through poverty, or by the judges for his crimes, yet even such a one was to continue in slavery but seven years at the most.

MHC:

21:1-11 The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.

CONC:

Anything Bondman Buy Buyest Depart Free Freeman Hebrew Money Nothing Nought Paying Payment Servant Serve Seventh Six Slave

Bondman Buy Buyest Depart Free Freeman Hebrew Money Nought Paying Payment Servant Serve Seventh Six Slave

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