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The Law Concerning Servants

1 “Now these are the1 judgments which you shall aset before them:  
2 aIf you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing.  
3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 aBut if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’  
6 then his master shall bring him to the ajudges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Exodus 21:2

If thou buy an Hebrew servant - Either sold by him or his parents through poverty, or by the judges for his crimes, yet even such a one was to continue in slavery but seven years at the most.




Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Exodus 21:2:

Leviticus 25:41

 

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