If thou buy an Hebrew] When he elleth himselfe, or his sonne, or daughter, in case of necessitie, Leviticus 22:39. Or, when for Felonie, or Theft he is sold, because he is not able to make restitution, Exodus 22:3. a King. 4. 5: 1. Matthew 18:5. And the same course, it is like, was to be taken with captives in War. in the seventh] After his sixe yeares service, the seventh yeare was, as some take it, a standard certaine and unvaried, and the same to all; to wit, the Sabbaticall yeare, Leviticus 23:2. Deuteronomy 15:1-2. So that whensoever a man began his service, it was at an end the seventh yeare, though he had served but one yeare before the seventh came about; nay, if but a moneth, or a day before, it seemeth sufficient; for in the seventh yeare releases were to be made of debts, and a little service would serve, when what remained was to be remitted: But then the law of sixe yeares service, vers. 2. of this Chapter, and Deuteronomy 15:12. is to little purpose, unlesse the service beginne so soone as the seventh yeare expired. To avoyd this inconvenience, some say, and (it is probable) that the sixe yeares service was not broken off but by the yeare of Jubile, Levit. 25. 5: 40.