Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses

"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.

But now, Jeremiah, today I will set you free from the chains on your wrists. If you would like to come to Babylon with me, come along and I will take care of you. But if you prefer not to come to Babylon with me, you are not required to do so. You are free to go anywhere in the land you want to go. Go wherever you choose."

You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.'

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.

So Edom has remained free from Judah's control to this very day. At that same time Libnah also rebelled and freed themselves from Judah's control because Jehoram rejected the Lord God of his ancestors.

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

The Lord will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

"I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say: 'I will uproot the people of those nations from their lands and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.

I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

"I will deliver you from the power of the wicked. I will free you from the clutches of violent people."

Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

(Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah. He had taken him there in chains along with all the people from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon.

She said, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He woke up and thought, "I will do as I did before and shake myself free." But he did not realize that the Lord had left him.

The Lord who rules over all says, "The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free.

Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

The king authorized his release; the ruler of nations set him free.

Therefore the Lord says this: "Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe.

So Edom has remained free from Judah's control to this very day. At that same time Libnah also rebelled.

Free me from prison, that I may give thanks to your name. Because of me the godly will assemble, for you will vindicate me.

Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord's temple. I have stored up 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!"

Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you (whether it involves a violent crime or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the Lord. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues; but if you obey, you will be free of guilt.

He replied, "You have suggested your own punishment! The one who has it will become my slave, but the rest of you will go free."

Naphtali is a free running doe, he speaks delightful words.

"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.

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

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.

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

"Take choice spices: twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh, half that -- about six and a quarter pounds -- of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?"'

Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

"'When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the Lord's sight.

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

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

Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, "If no other man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband's authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.'"

They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

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.

If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. "Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, 'We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?'

I continually look to the Lord for help, for he will free my feet from the enemy's net.

You will free me from the net they hid for me, for you are my place of refuge.

Joshua conquered the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. Then the land was free of war.

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.) Then the land was free of war.