Quotes about Freedom
If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
— Exodus 21:26
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
— Exodus 21:27
If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
— Exodus 21:30
Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
— Leviticus 14:53
The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.
— Leviticus 16:22
If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
— Leviticus 19:20
If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
— Leviticus 25:39
Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
— Leviticus 25:41
Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
— Leviticus 25:42
he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:
— Leviticus 25:48
either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
— Leviticus 25:49
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
— Leviticus 25:50