14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

And if your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

At the end of seven years let you go every man his brother, a Hebrew, who has been sold unto you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

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

And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

And if he be 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 the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should enslave them, that is, a Jew his brother. Now when all the princes, and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his manservant, and everyone his maidservant, go free, that none should enslave them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

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

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

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.

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

And it shall be, if he say unto you, I will not go away from you; because he loves you and your house, because he fares well with you;

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.