Exodus 21:2

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

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1 “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

3 If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.

4 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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Exodus 21:2 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
KJV King James Version: If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
WEB World English Bible: “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
ASV American Standard Version: If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: 'When thou buyest a Hebrew servant — six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;
DBY Darby Translation: If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
WBS Webster Bible: If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing.