Deuteronomy 15:12
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15:12If your fellow Hebrew27—whether male or female28—is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant29 go free.30
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- 27 Elsewhere in the OT, the Israelites are called “Hebrews” (עִבְרִי, ’ivriy) by outsiders, rarely by themselves (cf. Gen 14:13; 39:14, 17; 41:12; Exod 1:15, 16, 19; 2:6, 7, 11, 13; 1 Sam 4:6; Jonah 1:9). Thus, here and in the parallel passage in Exod 21:2–6 the term עִבְרִי may designate non-Israelites, specifically a people well-known throughout the ancient Near East as ’apiru or habiru. They lived a rather vagabond lifestyle, frequently hiring themselves out as laborers or mercenary soldiers. While accounting nicely for the surprising use of the term here in an Israelite law code, the suggestion has against it the unlikelihood that a set of laws would address such a marginal people so specifically (as opposed to simply calling them aliens or the like). More likely עִבְרִי is chosen as a term to remind Israel that when they were “Hebrews,” that is, when they were in Egypt, they were slaves. Now that they are free they must not keep their fellow Israelites in economic bondage. See v. 15.
- 28 Heb “your brother, a Hebrew (male) or Hebrew (female).”
- 29 Heb “him.” The singular pronoun occurs throughout the passage.
- 30 The Hebrew text includes “from you.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold 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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NIVNew International Version (2011)
If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.
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NLTNew Living Translation
“If a fellow Hebrew sells himself or herself to be your servant and serves you for six years, in the seventh year you must set that servant free.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out free.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
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