Cross references
Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
Exodus 21:2 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 15:12–15 (6 votes) and Exodus 12:44 (4 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 17 to 1 Corinthians 6.
Which verses does Exodus 21:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Deuteronomy 15:12–156 votes
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free. And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed. …
- Exodus 12:444 votes
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- Deuteronomy 15:184 votes
Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
- Exodus 22:33 votes
But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.
- Leviticus 25:39–453 votes
If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor. Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. …
- Deuteronomy 15:13 votes
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
- Deuteronomy 31:103 votes
Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
- Nehemiah 5:1–53 votes
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.” …
- Nehemiah 5:83 votes
and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
- Jeremiah 34:8–173 votes
After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. …
- Genesis 27:282 votes
- Genesis 27:362 votes
- 2 Kings 4:12 votes
- Matthew 18:252 votes
- 1 Corinthians 6:202 votes
Which verses point to Exodus 21:2?
The 10 strongest of 19.