Exodus 21:2

Laws About Slaves

¹ Now these are the laws which you are to put before them. ² If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment. ³ If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

Seventh Year

Deuteronomy 15:12-15

If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

Deuteronomy 15:18

Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

Genesis 27:28

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

Genesis 27:36

And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

Exodus 12:44

But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

Exodus 22:3

But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

Leviticus 25:39-45

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents,

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Jeremiah 34:8-17

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;

Matthew 18:25

And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

1 Corinthians 6:20

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.