Holy Scripture
Exodus 21:2
A church father on this verse
“We read that every Hebrew keeps the same Passover, and that in the seventh year every prisoner is set free, and that at Jubilee, that is, the fiftieth year, every possession returns to its owner. All this refers not to the present but to the future. For being in bondage during the six days of this world, on the sevent…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
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In context
1And these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.
— Exodus 21:2 —
3If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
4Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master’s; and he shall go forth alone.