Exodus 21:2 Cross References - TKJU

² If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years: And in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

²⁸ Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:

³⁶ And he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: He took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"Jacob; that is, A supplanter

⁴⁴ But every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.

³ If the sun is risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

³⁹ And if your brother that dwells by you be waxen poor, and be sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant: ⁴⁰ But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ And then shall he depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return. ⁴² For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: They shall not be sold as servants. ⁴³ You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God. ⁴⁴ Both your servants, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall be of the heathen that are all around you; of them shall you buy servants and bondmaids. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: And they shall be your possession.

¹ At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

¹² And if your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. ¹³ And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty: ¹⁴ You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your floor, and out of your winepress: Of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you you shall give to him. ¹⁵ And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you: Therefore I command you this thing today.

¹⁸ It shall not seem hard to you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: And the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

¹ Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: And the creditor is come to take to him my two sons to be servants.

¹ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. ² For there were that said, "We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: Therefore we take up grain for them, that we may eat, and live. ³ Some also there were that said, "We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the dearth. ⁴ There were also that said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that on our lands and vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: And, see, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already: Neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

⁸ And I said to them, "We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, which were sold to the heathen; and will you even sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

⁸ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; ⁹ that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. ¹⁰ Now when all the princes, and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his manservant, and everyone his maidservant, go free, that none should retain them in service anymore, then they obeyed, and let them go. ¹¹ But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. ¹² Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ¹³ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; 'I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants, saying, ¹⁴ "At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother a Hebrew, which has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you": But your fathers did not listen to Me, neither inclined their ear. ¹⁵ And you were now turned, and had done right in My sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name: ¹⁶ But you turned and polluted My name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.' ¹⁷ Therefore thus says the LORD; 'You have not listened to Me, in proclaiming liberty, everyone to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: Behold, I proclaim a liberty for you', said the LORD, 'to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁵ But since he did not have it to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

²⁰ For you are bought at a price: Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.