Jeremiah 34:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:6 : 6 And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
  • Gen 14:13 : 13 And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.
  • Gen 40:15 : 15 For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.
  • Exod 3:18 : 18 And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.
  • Lev 25:39-46 : 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; 40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; 41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. 43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. 44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. 45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property. 46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
  • Deut 15:12 : 12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.
  • 1 Sam 4:6 : 6 And the Philistines, hearing the noise of their cry, said, What is this great cry among the tents of the Hebrews? Then it became clear to them that the ark of the Lord had come to the tent-circle.
  • 1 Sam 4:9 : 9 Be strong, O Philistines, be men! Do not be servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you: go forward to the fight without fear.
  • 1 Sam 14:11 : 11 And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover.
  • Jer 25:14 : 14 For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
  • Jer 27:7 : 7 And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.
  • Jer 30:8 : 8 For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:
  • Jer 34:10 : 10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
  • 1 Cor 6:8 : 8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 34:10-17
    8 verses
    88%

    10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

    11 But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

    12 For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

    13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

    14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

    15 And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:

    16 But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.

    17 And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Jer 34:8
    83%

    8 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;

  • Deut 15:12-18
    7 verses
    80%

    12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

    13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

    14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

    15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

    16 But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

    17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

    18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Exod 21:2
    78%

    2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • Lev 25:39-44
    6 verses
    76%

    39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

    40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

    41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

    42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

    43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

    44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

  • Deut 15:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

    2 This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

    3 A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

  • Deut 23:15
    72%

    15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

  • Exod 21:7
    72%

    7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

  • Exod 21:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

    5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    71%

    53 And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

    54 And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

    55 For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 12:44
    71%

    44 But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

  • Deut 24:14
    70%

    14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • Lev 25:46
    70%

    46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

  • Jer 30:8
    69%

    8 For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

  • Exod 9:1
    69%

    1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.

  • Jer 50:33
    69%

    33 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.

  • Deut 21:14
    69%

    14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

  • Isa 14:3
    69%

    3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

  • Acts 7:7
    69%

    7 And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.

  • Deut 15:9
    68%

    9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

  • 1 Cor 7:22
    68%

    22 For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    68%

    10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

  • Neh 4:22
    68%

    22 And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

  • Gen 44:9
    68%

    9 If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.