Exodus 21:2 Cross References - NSB

² »When you buy a Hebrew slave he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man without paying for his freedom.

²⁸ »May God give you of the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine.

³⁶ Esau said: »This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the firstborn son. Now he has taken my blessing. Have you saved a blessing for me?«

⁴⁴ »After you have circumcised your purchased slave he may eat of it.

³ »But if it happens after sunrise, he is guilty of murder. A thief must make up for what he has stolen. If he is unable to do so, he should be sold as a slave to pay for what he stole.

³⁹ »‘If an Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not work him like a slave. ⁴⁰ »‘He will be like a hired worker or a visitor to you. He may work with you until the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ »‘Then you will release him and his children to go back to their family and the property of their ancestors. ⁴² »‘They are my servants. I brought them out of Egypt. They must never be sold as slaves. ⁴³ »‘Do not treat them harshly. Respect your God. ⁴⁴ »‘You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you. ⁴⁵ »‘You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property.

¹ »Release all debts at the end of every seven years.

¹² »If you buy Israelites (your own brothers) as slaves, you must set them free after six years. ¹³ »Do not send him away empty handed when you set him free. ¹⁴ »Supply him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat. Give to him as Jehovah your God has blessed you. ¹⁵ »Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this today!

¹⁸ »It should not seem hard to you when you set him free. After all he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man. Jehovah your God will bless you in whatever you do.

¹⁰ Moses commanded them: »At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths,

¹ The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: »My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.«

¹ Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. ² Some said: »We with our sons and our daughters are a great number. Let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.« ³ There were some who said: »We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt. Let us get grain because we are in need.« ⁴ Yet others said: »We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. ⁵ »But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children. Now we give our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants. Some of our daughters are servants even now. We have no power to stop this. For other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.«

⁸ I said to them: »We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free. They were servants and prisoners of the nations. Would you now give up your brothers for a price? Are they to become our property?« They said nothing. They answered not a word!

⁸ Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah and all the people in Jerusalem promised to free their slaves. ⁹ Everyone was supposed to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female. No one was supposed to keep another Jew as a slave. ¹⁰ All the officials and all the people agreed and promised to free their male and female slaves and not to keep them as slaves anymore. So they set them free. ¹¹ Later they changed their minds and took back the men and women they had freed and made them their slaves again. ¹² Jehovah continued to speak his word to Jeremiah: ¹³ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘I put a condition on the covenant I made to your ancestors when I brought them from Egypt, where they were slaves. I said: ¹⁴ »Every seven years each of you must free any Hebrews who sold themselves to you. When they have served you for six years, you must set them free. But your ancestors refused to obey me or listen to me. ¹⁵ »You changed and did what I consider right. You agreed to free your neighbors, and you made a covenant in my presence, in the Temple that is called by my name. ¹⁶ »Now you have changed again and dishonored me. You brought back the male and females slaves that you had set free to live their own lives. You have forced them to be your male and female slaves again.’ ¹⁷ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘You did not obey me. You have not freed your relatives and neighbors. Now I am going to free you,’ declares Jehovah. ‘I will free you to die in wars, plagues, and famines. I will make all the kingdoms of the world horrified at the thought of you.

²⁵ »He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.

²⁰ You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.