Bible Verses About Servants

No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee.

And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:

If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.

But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.

And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.

Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:

And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:

And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.

If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:

After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:

Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.

If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.

If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years.

His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.

And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.

For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: nor his house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:

And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless thee.

But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:

Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.