14 Bible Verses about People Freeing Slaves

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Deuteronomy 15:12

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

Jeremiah 34:14

At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

Exodus 21:11

If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

Exodus 21:26

"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Exodus 21:27

If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Leviticus 25:54

If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

Jeremiah 34:8-10

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother. All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

Jeremiah 34:15

You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

Job 3:19

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

1 Corinthians 7:21

Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

Exodus 21:5

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

Deuteronomy 15:16

It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;" because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

Exodus 21:7

"If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

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