Exo 21:2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
Exo 21:5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
Exo 21:26 “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.
Exo 21:27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.
Deu 15:12 “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
Deu 15:13 And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.
Deu 15:18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.
1Sa 17:25 And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
Job 3:19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
and the slave is free from his master.
Job 39:5 “Who has let the wild donkey go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
Psa 88:5 like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom you remember no more,
for they are cut off from your hand.
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom you remember no more,
for they are cut off from your hand.
Isa 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Jer 34:9 that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.
Jer 34:10 And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.
Jer 34:11 But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.
Jer 34:14 ‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.
Jer 34:16 but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.
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