Leviticus 25:46

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 25:43 : 43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:39-45
    7 verses
    84%

    39And 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;

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

    41Then 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.

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

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

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

    45And 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.

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    77%

    53And 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.

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

    55For 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.

  • Isa 14:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

    3And 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,

  • Lev 25:47
    77%

    47And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

  • Ezek 44:28
    73%

    28And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

  • Deut 15:17
    73%

    17Then 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.

  • Deut 15:12
    73%

    12If 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.

  • Jer 34:14
    72%

    14At 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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:21-22
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    72%

    21Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

    22But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

  • Ezek 47:22
    72%

    22And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.

  • Deut 18:2
    72%

    2And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

    17He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

  • Exod 1:13
    71%

    13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

  • Ezek 36:12
    71%

    12Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.

  • Ezek 37:25
    71%

    25And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    71%

    10And 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?

  • Deut 28:68
    71%

    68And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

  • Lev 25:24
    71%

    24Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

  • 1 Kgs 8:51
    71%

    51For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;

  • Num 18:23
    70%

    23But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

  • Isa 34:17
    70%

    17And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Exod 21:2
    70%

    2If 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.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5But 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.

  • Ezek 47:14
    70%

    14And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.

  • Neh 9:24
    70%

    24So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Jer 34:9
    70%

    9That 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:

  • Jer 34:11
    70%

    11But 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.

  • Deut 24:7
    70%

    7If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Num 27:10
    70%

    10And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

  • Lev 25:14
    70%

    14And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • Jer 17:4
    70%

    4And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.

  • Acts 7:6
    70%

    6And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

  • Deut 28:31-32
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    70%

    31Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

    32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

  • Exod 19:6
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    6And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

  • Num 36:4
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    4And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Deut 24:14
    70%

    14Do 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.

  • Ps 105:44
    70%

    44And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;