Exo 21:1-4, 23:10-11, Deu 15:12, 1Ki 9:22, 2Ch 28:10, Isa 58:6, Jer 34:8-9 | ESV | STEP | Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.

Exodus 21:1-4

Laws About Slaves

1 “Now these are the ^arules that you shall set before them. 2 ^bWhen you buy a Hebrew slave, ^{▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles; also verses 5, 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 27, 32 (see Preface)} he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.

Exodus 23:10-11

Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals

10 ^d“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Deuteronomy 15:12

12 ^e“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold ^{▼▼Or sells himself} to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

1 Kings 9:22

22 But ^gof the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

2 Chronicles 28:10

10 And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?

Isaiah 58:6

6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
^hto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps ⁱof the yoke,
to let the oppressed ^{▼▼Or bruised} go free,
and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 34:8-9

8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah ^khad made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem ^lto make a proclamation of liberty to them, 9 ^mthat everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, ⁿso that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.