7. Does the Bible support slavery?

Ex 21:2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
Ex 21:3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
Ex 21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
Ex 21:5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
Ex 21:6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

Lev 25:39 “ ‘If one of your countrymen becomes poor among you and sells himself to you, do not make him work as a slave.
Lev 25:40 He is to be treated as a hired worker or a temporary resident among you; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
Lev 25:41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he will go back to his own clan and to the property of his forefathers.
Lev 25:42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.
Lev 25:43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.
Lev 25:44 “ ‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.