Exodus 21:2-6
2 aWhen 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. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If 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. 5But cif the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to dGod, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. Leviticus 25:39-41
39 e“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: 40he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41 fThen he shall go out from you, ghe and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return hto the possession of his fathers.Deuteronomy 15:1
The Sabbatical Year
1“At the end of ievery seven years you shall grant a release.Jeremiah 34:14
14 j‘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; kyou must set him free from your service.’ But lyour fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.John 8:35-36
35 mThe slave does not remain in the house forever; nthe son remains forever. 36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
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