14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

When you buy a Hebrew slave he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man without paying for his freedom.

If you buy Israelites (your own brothers) as slaves, you must set them free after six years.

Every seven years each of you must free any Hebrews who sold themselves to you. When they have served you for six years, you must set them free. But your ancestors refused to obey me or listen to me.

If he fails to do any of these things, she should be given her freedom without cost.

If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free because of his eye.

If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free because of his tooth.

If he cannot buy his freedom he and his children will be released in the year of jubilee.

Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah and all the people in Jerusalem promised to free their slaves. Everyone was supposed to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female. No one was supposed to keep another Jew as a slave. All the officials and all the people agreed and promised to free their male and female slaves and not to keep them as slaves anymore. So they set them free.

You changed and did what I consider right. You agreed to free your neighbors, and you made a covenant in my presence, in the Temple that is called by my name.

The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

Were you called being a slave? Do not let it worry you. But if you can become free, do so.

What if the slave loves his wife and children so much that he will not leave without them?

If he says to you: I will not leave you. If it is because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you,

When a man sells his daughter into slavery, she will not go free the way male slaves do.