Quotes about Freedom
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
If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
- Leviticus 25:51
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
- Leviticus 25:52
Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:54
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
- Leviticus 26:13
The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
- Numbers 5:31
On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
- Numbers 33:3