14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

If your fellow Hebrew -- whether male or female -- is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

"Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free." But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom. Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved. All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.

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

Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

But if the servant should declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

However, if the servant says to you, "I do not want to leave you," because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

"If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.