The law here appears harmoniously to supplement the earlier one in Exodus 21:1-6. It was another check applied periodically to the tyranny of the r…

But as an hired servant. — The master is in all respects to treat him as one who provides his service for wages for a cer…

[But] as an hired servant Who is hired by the day, or month, or year; and, when his time is up, receives his wages and go…

A native Israelite, if sold for debt or for a crime, was to serve only six years and to go out free in the seventh. If he sold himself because of p…