14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves
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If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve: and in the seventh he shall go forth free gratuitously.
When thy brother a Hebrew, or Hebrewess, shall be sold to thee, and serving thee six years; in the seventh year thou shalt send him away free from thee.
From the end of seven years ye shall send away a man his brother, the Hebrew who shall be sold to thee, and serving thee six years, and send him away free from thee; and your fathers heard not to me and inclined not their ear
And if he shall not do these three to her, she shall go forth gratuitously without silver.
And if a man strike the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid, and he destroyed it; he shall send him forth free for the sake of his eye.
And if the tooth of his servant or the tooth of his maid he shall cast out, he shall send him forth free for his tooth.
And if he shall not be redeemed in these, and he shall go forth in the year of the jubilee, he and his sons with him.
The word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah after king Zedekiah cut out a covenant with all the people which were in Jerusalem, to call to them liberty; For a man to send away his servant, and a man his maid, the Hebrew or the Hebrewess, free; for a man not to serve with them with a Jew his brother. And all the chiefs will hear, and all the people which came into the covenant, to send away a man his servant and a man his maid, free, no more to serve with them, and they will hear and will send away.
And ye will turn back to-day and do the straight in mine eyes, to call liberty a man to his neighbor; and ye will cut out a covenant before me in the house which my name was called upon it
The little and the great, he is there; and the servant being free from his lord.
A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.
And if saying, the servant shall say, I loved my lord, my wife and my sons; I will not go forth free:
And it was when he shall say to thee, I will not go forth from thee; for he loved thee and thy house, for it was well to him with thee;
And if a man shall sell his daughter for a maid, she shall not go forth as the servants went forth.