44 but every slave[a] that is (A)bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:44 Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)

(A)When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

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  1. Exodus 21:2 Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles; also verses 5, 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 27, 32 (see Preface)

11 but if a priest buys a slave[a] as his property for money, the slave[b] may eat of it, and (A)anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

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  1. Leviticus 22:11 Or servant; twice in this verse
  2. Leviticus 22:11 Hebrew he

12 (A)“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold[a] to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 15:12 Or sells himself

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