“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…”
Jerome, 5th c. — AGAINST JOVINIAN 2.25
Original
2If 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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In context
1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
— Exodus 21:2 —
3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.