That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] an ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew male] or an ‘Evri’ah [Hebrew female], go free; that none should serve himself of them, [that is to say], of a Y’hudi (Jewish person) his brother.Exo 21:2; Lev 25:39; Deu 15:12