Exodus 21:2-6 If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.… In the latter days of Sir Walter Scott, when poverty stared him in the face, he had to announce to his servants his inability to retain them any longer. But they begged to be allowed to stay, saying they would be content with the barest fare if only they might remain in his employ. This was permitted, and they clung, to him until the last. (H. O. Mackey.) Parallel Verses KJV: If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. |
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