Exodus 21:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free. 13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands: 14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him. 15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. 2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. 3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need. 4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
  • Jer 34:8-9 : 8 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free; 9 That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant: 10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go. 11 But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls. 12 For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying, 14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear. 15 And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name: 16 But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls. 17 And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Matt 18:25 : 25 And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
  • Deut 31:10 : 10 And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents,
  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:
  • Gen 27:36 : 36 And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?
  • Exod 12:44 : 44 But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.
  • Exod 22:3 : 3 But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.
  • Lev 25:39-45 : 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; 40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; 41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. 43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. 44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. 45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.
  • Deut 15:1 : 1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:12-18
    7 verses
    88%

    12If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

    13And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

    14But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

    15And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

    16But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

    17Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

    18Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Jer 34:14
    82%

    14At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

  • Exod 21:3-8
    6 verses
    81%

    3If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

    4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

    5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

    6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

    8If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

  • Lev 25:50-54
    5 verses
    80%

    50And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

    51If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

    52And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

    53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

    54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    79%

    39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

    40But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

    41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

    42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

  • Exod 21:11
    78%

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

    10And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

  • Exod 21:1
    77%

    1Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

  • Deut 21:14
    76%

    14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

  • Deut 15:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

    2This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

  • Deut 23:15
    74%

    15Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

  • Lev 25:44
    74%

    44But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

  • Exod 21:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

    21But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

  • Acts 7:7
    73%

    7And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.

  • Lev 25:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

    28But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

    22For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

    23It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

  • Lev 25:6
    72%

    6And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

  • Exod 20:10
    72%

    10But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

  • Exod 12:44
    72%

    44But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

  • Deut 24:14
    72%

    14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • Exod 23:10
    71%

    10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

  • Deut 5:14
    71%

    14But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

  • Exod 21:32
    71%

    32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

  • Exod 21:16
    71%

    16Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.