Bible Verses About Servants

No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

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.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.

For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,

then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.