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Exd 21:2 — If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

an Hebrew		Exd 12:44; Exd 22:3; Gen 27:28,36; Lev 25:39-41,44; 2Ki 4:1; Neh 5:1-5,8; Mat 18:25; 1Cr 6:20
and in the		Lev 25:40-43,45; Deu 15:1,12-15,18; Deu 31:10; Jer 34:8-17

Correlating Passages

an Hebrew

	Exd 12:44	But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
	Exd 22:3	If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
	Gen 27:28	Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
	Gen 27:36	And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
	Lev 25:39	And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
	Lev 25:40	[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
	Lev 25:41	And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
	Lev 25:44	Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
	2Ki 4:1	Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
	Neh 5:1	And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
	Neh 5:2	For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live.
	Neh 5:3	[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
	Neh 5:4	There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards.
	Neh 5:5	Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
	Neh 5:8	And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].
	Mat 18:25	But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
	1Cr 6:20	For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

and in the

	Lev 25:40	[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
	Lev 25:41	And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
	Lev 25:42	For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
	Lev 25:43	Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
	Lev 25:45	Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
	Deu 15:1	At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release.
	Deu 15:12	[And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
	Deu 15:13	And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
	Deu 15:14	Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
	Deu 15:15	And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
	Deu 15:18	It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
	Deu 31:10	And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
	Jer 34:8	[This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
	Jer 34:9	That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.
	Jer 34:10	Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let [them] go.
	Jer 34:11	But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
	Jer 34:12	Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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