54And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. …
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: …
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-55)We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God’s sons, his first-born. Now the law is, I. That a native Israelite should never be made a bondman for perpetuity. If he was sold for debt, or for a crime, by the house of judgment, he was to se…
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