14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

If thou should buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold unto thee and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shalt send him forth from thee free.

At the end of seven years each one shall let his Hebrew brother go, who has been sold unto thee; therefore he shall serve thee six years, and thou shalt send him forth free from thee: but your fathers did not hearken unto me, nor incline their ear.

And if he does not do these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

And if someone smites the eye of their slave or the eye of their maid that it perishes, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.

And if he smites out his manslave's tooth or his maidslave's tooth, he shall let them go free for their tooth's sake.

And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he and his children with him.

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; that every man should let his manslave, and every man his maidslave, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should use of his brethren, the Jews, as a slave. Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that each one should let his manslave and each one his maidslave go free, that no one should use them any more as servants, then they listened and let them go.

And ye were now converted and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

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

Art thou called being a slave? care not for it; but if thou may be made free, use it rather.

And if the slave shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.

And it shall be, if he says unto thee, I will not go away from thee because he loves thee and thy house because he is well with thee,

And if a man should sell his daughter to be a maidslave, she shall not go out as the menslaves do.