Deuteronomy 15:12
Good News Translation
"If any Israelites, male or female, sell themselves to you as slaves, you are to release them after they have served you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must let them go free.

New Revised Standard Version
If a member of your community, whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and works for you six years, in the seventh year you shall set that person free.

Contemporary English Version
If any of you buy Israelites as slaves, you must set them free after six years.

New American Bible
If your kin, a Hebrew man or woman, sells himself or herself to you, he or she is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year you shall release him or her as a free person.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:

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When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:

Deuteronomy 15:1 In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,

Exodus 21:2-6 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. . . .

Leviticus 25:39-41 If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants. . . .

Jeremiah 34:14 At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.

John 8:35,36 Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son abideth for ever. . . .

Context
Release of Hebrew Servants
12When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:13And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:…
Cross References
Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Leviticus 25:39
If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.

Deuteronomy 15:13
And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.

Deuteronomy 15:11
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