'Free' in the Bible
"Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'
If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
"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.
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.
"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"
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.
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."
These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the rooms [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says Yahweh of Armies.
"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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:
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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.
but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.