Quotes about Freedom
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Exodus 20:2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
- Exodus 21:2
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
- Exodus 21:4
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
- Exodus 21:5
If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.
- Exodus 21:8
If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.
- Exodus 21:11
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