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Exodus 21:2 (Listen)

iWhen you buy a Hebrew slave,1 he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

Footnotes

[1] 21:2 Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles; also verses 5, 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 27, 32 (see Preface)

Leviticus 25:39 (Listen)

39 d“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: