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OET (OET-LV) If/because you_will_buy a_slave Hebrew six years he_will_serve and_in/on/at/with_seventh he_will_go_out as_a_free without_paying.
OET (OET-RV) If you buy a Hebrew slave, he should serve for six years, then in the seventh year he must be set free without having to pay you anything.
Here Yahweh begins telling Moses his laws for the people of Israel.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical
כִּ֤י תִקְנֶה֙ עֶ֣בֶד עִבְרִ֔י
that/for/because/then/when buy slave Hebrew
This is the first of many hypothetical situations, introduced by “when” or if, which you will encounter over the next several chapters. See the introduction to chapter 21. You will need to translate these consistently in a manner that expresses that these situations have not happened.
21:2 A man might sell himself into slavery in order to get money to pay his debts. This law states that the man was never to become the permanent property of the master.
OET (OET-LV) If/because you_will_buy a_slave Hebrew six years he_will_serve and_in/on/at/with_seventh he_will_go_out as_a_free without_paying.
OET (OET-RV) If you buy a Hebrew slave, he should serve for six years, then in the seventh year he must be set free without having to pay you anything.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.