21 “These are the ordinances that you must set before them:

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) If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with[b] a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:2 Lit to go forth
  2. Exodus 21:3 Lit he is the husband of

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