Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
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12If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.
13And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:
14But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.
15And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.
16But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;
17Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.
2If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
14At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.
15And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:
39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;
40But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;
41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.
42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.
43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
44But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.
9And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
10But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.
52And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.
53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
18But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:
6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
15Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:
50And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.
14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.
15Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
9That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
10And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
1At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.
2This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.
3A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;
14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.
12And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.
22Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
15And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.
19All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.
18But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
10Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:
6And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;
10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;
6For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.
3And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
17Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.
3For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;
16He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.