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Want to know what the Bible says about Slavery? Here are 320 Bible verses about Slavery from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Leviticus 25:39-40 NIV
39 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves. 40 They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
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Deuteronomy 16:14 NIV
Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
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Exodus 21:10-11 NIV
10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
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Exodus 21:22 NIV
“If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.
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Exodus 2:23 NIV
During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
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Deuteronomy 5:6 NIV
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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Deuteronomy 8:14 NIV
then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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Deuteronomy 7:8 NIV
But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Judges 6:8 NIV
he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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2 Peter 2:19 NIV
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”
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