14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

If thou buy a servant that is an Hebrew, sixth years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free paying nothing.

If thy brother, an Hebrew, sell himself to thee, or an Hebrewess, he shall serve thee six years and the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

'When seven years are out, every man shall let his bought servant, a Hebrew go free, if he have served him six years.' But your fathers obeyed me not and hearkened not unto me.

If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money.

If a man smite his servant or his maid in the eye and put it out, he shall let them go free for the eye's sake.

Also, if he smite out his servant's or his maid's tooth, he shall let them go out free for the tooth's sake.

If he be not bought free in the meantime, then he shall go out in the trumpet year and his children with him;

These are the words that the LORD spake unto Jeremiah the prophet, when Zedekiah was agreed with all the people at Jerusalem, that there should be proclaimed a liberty: so that every man should let his servant and handmaid go free, Hebrew and Hebrewess, and no Jew to hold his brother as a bond man. Now as they had consented, even so they were obedient, and let them go free.

As for you, ye were now turned, and did right before me, in that ye proclaimed, every man to let his neighbour go free, and in that ye made a covenant before me, in the temple that beareth my name.

There, are small and great; the bondman, and he that is free from his master.

Art thou called a servant? Care not for it. Nevertheless if thou mayst be free, use it rather.

But and if the servant say, 'I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go out free.'

But and if he say unto thee, 'I will not go away from thee,' because he loveth thee and thine house and is well at ease with thee:

"If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do.