2 “In case you should buy a Hebrew slave,+ he will be a slave six years, but in the seventh he will go out as one set free without charge.+

12 “In case there should be sold to you your brother, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess,+ and he has served you six years, then in the seventh year you should send him out from you as one set free.+

4 Now there was a certain woman of the wives of the sons+ of the prophets that cried out to E·liʹsha, saying: “Your servant, my husband, is dead; and you yourself well know that your own servant had continually feared+ Jehovah, and the creditor+ himself has come to take both my children for his slaves.”

5 And now our flesh is the same as the flesh of our brothers;+ our sons are the same as their sons, but here we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slaves,+ and there are some of our daughters already reduced; and there is no power in our hands while our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”