Exodus 21:2

Laws About Slaves

¹ Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them. ² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Seventh Year

Deuteronomy 15:12-15

If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard to thee when thou let him go free from thee, for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. And LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou do.

Genesis 27:28

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:36

And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Exodus 12:44

but every man's servant who is bought for money, when thou have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.

Exodus 22:3

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. [A thief] shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Leviticus 25:39-45

And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not make him to serve as a bondman.

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years thou shall make a release.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word.

Jeremiah 34:8-17

The word that came to Jeremiah from LORD, after the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

Matthew 18:25

But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.

1 Corinthians 6:20

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.