14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall depart free for nothing.

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, shall be sold to thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

At the end of seven years dismiss ye every man his brother a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not to me, neither inclined their ear.

And if he shall not perform these three to her, then shall she depart free without money.

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

And if he shall smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

And if he shall not be 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 to Jeremiah from the LORD, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; That every man should liberate his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess; that none should retain them in service, to wit, a Jew his brother. Now when all the princes, and all the people who had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should liberate his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, that none should retain them in service any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye 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.

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest 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 depart free:

And it shall be, if he shall say to thee, I will not leave thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

And if a man shall sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not depart as the men-servants do.