Bible Verses About Servants

Whichever one of us the goblet is found with, let him be put to death - and the rest of us will be my lord's slaves!"

Whoever among Pharaoh's servants feared what ADONAI had said had his slaves and livestock escape into the houses;

All your servants will come down to me, prostrate themselves before me and say, "Get out! - you and all the people who follow you!" and after that, I will go out!'"And he went out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

But if anyone has a slave he bought for money, when you have circumcised him, he may eat it.

Neither a traveler nor a hired servant may eat it.

but the seventh day is a Shabbat for ADONAI your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work -not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the for eigner staying with you inside the gates to your property.

"Do not covet your neighbor's house; do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

"If you purchase a Hebrew slave, he is to work six years; but in the seventh, he is to be given his freedom without having to pay anything.

If he came single, he is to leave single; if he was married when he came, his wife is to go with him when he leaves.

But if his master gave him a wife, and she bore him sons or daughters, then the wife and her children will belong to her master, and he will leave by himself.

Nevertheless, if the slave declares, 'I love my master, my wife and my children, so I don't want to go free,'

then his master is to bring him before God; and there at the door or doorpost, his master is to pierce his ear with an awl; and the man will be his slave for life.

"If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to go free like the men-slaves.

If her master married her but decides she no longer pleases him, then he is to allow her to be redeemed. He is not allowed to sell her to a foreign people, because he has treated her unfairly.

If he has her marry his son, then he is to treat her like a daughter.

If he marries another wife, he is not to reduce her food, clothing or marital rights.

If he fails to provide her with these three things, she is to be given her freedom without having to pay anything.

"Whoever kidnaps someone must be put to death, regardless of whether he has already sold him or the person is found still in his possession.

"If a person beats his male or female slave with a stick so severely that he dies, he is to be punished;

except that if the slave lives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his property.

"If a person hits his male or female slave's eye and destroys it, he must let him go free in compensation for his eye.

If he knocks out his male or female slave's tooth, he must let him go free in compensation for his tooth.

If the ox gores a male or female slave, its owner must give their master twelve ounces of silver; and the ox is to be stoned to death.

unless it happens after sunrise, in which case it is murder. A thief must make restitution; so if he has nothing, he himself is to be sold to make good the loss from the theft.

Do not oppress or rob your neighbor; specifically, you are not to keep back the wages of a hired worker all night until morning.