Deuteronomy 15:12 References
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"aIf 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.
a Exodus 21:2-6, Leviticus 25:39-43, Jeremiah 34:14
Exodus 21
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"If you buy aa Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
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"If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
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"If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.
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"But aif the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,'
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then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
Leviticus 25
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'aIf 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.
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'He shall be with you as a hired man, as aif he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
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'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.
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'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.