14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free; That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant: And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:

The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.