pSee Lev. 23:34
sSee Lev. 25:39-46
Leviticus 25:40-43
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 aThen he shall go out from you, bhe and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return cto the possession of his fathers. 42For they are dmy servants, ▼▼Hebrew slaves
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43 fYou shall not rule over him gruthlessly but hshall fear your God. Leviticus 25:45
45 iYou may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.Deuteronomy 15:1
The Sabbatical Year
1“At the end of jevery seven years you shall grant a release.Deuteronomy 15:12-15
12 k“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. 13And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. 14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. mAs the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 nYou shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. Deuteronomy 15:18
18It 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.Deuteronomy 31:10
10And Moses commanded them, o“At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at pthe Feast of Booths,Jeremiah 34:8-17
8The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah qhad made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem rto make a proclamation of liberty to them, 9 sthat everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, tso that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. 10And 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. 11But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves uthey had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves. 12The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 13“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when vI brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying, 14 w‘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; xyou must set him free from your service.’ But yyour fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me. 15You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes zby proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and aayou made a covenant before me in the abhouse that is called by my name, 16but then you turned around acand profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, adwhom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.17“Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me aeby proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; afbehold, I proclaim to you liberty agto the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. ahI will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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