Quotes About Freedom

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.

The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.

Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.