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If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
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A System for the Poor
Commentators explain that this form of servitude was primarily a social safety net within the Israelite community. A person, called 'your brother,' might sell themselves due to poverty or be sold by a court for theft. This was not chattel slavery but a system of indentured servitude with a clear, legally mandated end.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
In the seventh year. —This is to be understood as the Sabbatical year whenever it came. It would rarely happen that the Hebrew sla…
Baptist
He might be under an apprenticeship of servitude for six years; but the seventh year was to be a year of rest to him, as it was a year of release t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if your brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be soldunto youBy others, as …
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Presbyterian
Here the law concerning Hebrew servants is repeated. There is an addition, requiring masters to put some small stock into their servants' hands to …
