Jeremiah 34:14

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

At the end of seven years, each of you must set free your Hebrew brothers who have been sold to you and have served you for six years. You must release them to go free. But your ancestors did not obey me or pay attention to me.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    When seuen yeares are out, euery man shal let go fre his bought seruaunte an Hebrue, yf he haue serued him sixe yeares. But yor fathers obeied me not & herkened not vnto me

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    At the terme of seuen yeres let ye go, euery man his brother an Ebrewe which hath bene solde vnto thee: and when he hath serued the sixe yeres, thou shalt let him go free fro thee: but your fathers obeyed me not, neither inclined their eares.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    When seuen yeres are out, euery man shall let his bought seruaunt an Hebrue go free, if he haue serued hym sixe yeres: but your fathers obayed me not, and hearkened not vnto me.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:12 : 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year, you must set them free.
  • 1 Sam 8:7-8 : 7 The LORD said to Samuel, 'Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. It is not you they have rejected but they have rejected me as their king. 8 Just as they have done to me from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day—forsaking me and serving other gods—so they are also doing to you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:22 : 22 But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites; they were his soldiers, servants, officials, commanders, captains, and commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
  • 2 Kgs 17:13-14 : 13 Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and seers, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments and statutes according to the entire law I commanded your fathers to follow, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.' 14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.
  • 2 Chr 28:10 : 10 And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people beyond remedy.
  • Neh 9:30 : 30 For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says: Where is the certificate of divorce for your mother, whom I sent away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Behold, because of your sins, you were sold, and because of your transgressions, your mother was sent away.
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to break every yoke?
  • Jer 7:25-26 : 25 From the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I sent all my servants the prophets to you, again and again. 26 But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.
  • Jer 11:8-9 : 8 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, each one followed the stubbornness of their own evil heart. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to obey but they did not. 9 Then the LORD said to me, ‘A conspiracy has been found among the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.’ 10 They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.
  • Jer 32:30 : 30 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have only done what is evil in My eyes since their youth. Indeed, the sons of Israel have only provoked Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 34:8-9 : 8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them: 9 Each was to free his Hebrew servants, both male and female, so that no one would enslave a fellow Hebrew, a fellow Jew.
  • Ezek 20:4 : 4 Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Let them know about the detestable practices of their ancestors.
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; none of them got rid of the detestable things their eyes were set on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
  • Amos 2:6 : 6 This is what the LORD says: 'For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.'
  • Amos 8:6 : 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts.
  • Rom 7:14-17 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 For I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 There was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
  • Exod 21:1-4 : 1 These are the laws you are to set before them. 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 any payment. 3 If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; but if he is married, then his wife shall leave with him. 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 he shall go out by himself.
  • Exod 23:10-11 : 10 For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce. 11 But during the seventh year, you are to let it rest and leave it unplowed, so that the poor among your people may eat, and whatever they leave, the wild animals may eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Deut 15:12-18
    7 verses
    89%

    12If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year, you must set them free.

    13And when you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

    14Provide them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

    15Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today.

    16But if they say to you, 'I will not leave you,' because they love you and your household and are well off with you,

    17then take an awl and pierce their ear to the door, and they will become your servant for life. You shall do the same for your female servant.

    18Do not consider it hard to set them free, because their service to you for six years was worth twice as much as that of a hired worker, and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Jer 34:8-11
    4 verses
    83%

    8The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them:

    9Each was to free his Hebrew servants, both male and female, so that no one would enslave a fellow Hebrew, a fellow Jew.

    10And all the officials and all the people who entered into the covenant agreed to set free their male and female slaves, so that they would no longer enslave them. They obeyed and set them free.

    11But afterward they turned back and took back the men and women they had freed, and forced them to become slaves again.

  • Exod 21:2
    82%

    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he shall go free, without any payment.

  • Deut 15:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1At the end of seven years, you shall institute a release.

    2This is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release what they have lent to their neighbor. They shall not demand payment from their neighbor or their relative, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed.

    3You may demand payment from a foreigner, but you shall release whatever your brother owes you.

  • Jer 34:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    15Recently, you repented and did what is right in my sight by proclaiming freedom, each man for his neighbor. You made a covenant before me in the house where my name is called upon.

    16But then you turned back and profaned my name. You took back the servants and maidservants whom you had set free, allowing them to go wherever they desired, and you brought them back into subjection to become your slaves again.

    17Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming freedom, each one to his brother and to his neighbor. So now, I proclaim freedom for you, declares the Lord—freedom to the sword, to plague, and to famine. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Jer 34:13
    79%

    13This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    77%

    39If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

    40They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

    41Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors.

    42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

  • Lev 25:52-54
    3 verses
    77%

    52If only a few years remain until the Jubilee, they are to calculate this and pay for their redemption accordingly.

    53They are to be treated as a yearly hired worker while with their buyer, and they must not be ruled over harshly in your sight.

    54If they are not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee.

  • Deut 15:9
    75%

    9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is near,' and you look grudgingly on your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  • Acts 7:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6God spoke to Abraham in this way: 'Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

    7But I will judge the nation that they serve as slaves,' said God, 'and afterward, they will come out and worship me in this place.'

  • Deut 24:14
    72%

    14Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

  • Deut 21:14
    72%

    14But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

  • Lev 25:46-48
    3 verses
    72%

    46You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites harshly.

    47If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

    48they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them.

  • Exod 23:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce.

    11But during the seventh year, you are to let it rest and leave it unplowed, so that the poor among your people may eat, and whatever they leave, the wild animals may eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

  • Lev 25:10
    72%

    10You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you, and every one of you shall return to your property and to your family.

  • Exod 21:5
    72%

    5But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to go free,’

  • Lev 25:27
    71%

    27he shall calculate the years since its sale, refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.

  • Deut 23:15
    71%

    15For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies into your hands. Your camp must be holy so that He will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

  • Deut 31:10
    71%

    10Then Moses commanded them, saying, 'At the end of every seven years, in the appointed time of the year of release, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

  • Exod 21:7
    71%

    7If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

  • Lev 25:50
    71%

    50They and their buyer are to calculate the time from the year they were sold to the Year of Jubilee. The price of their release shall be based on the number of years, like the wages of a hired worker.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the eye.

    27And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the tooth.

  • Deut 24:18
    70%

    18Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

  • Exod 7:16
    70%

    16Then say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But so far you have not listened.'

  • Lev 25:44
    70%

    44Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

  • Exod 4:23
    70%

    23and I told you to let my son go so he may worship me, but you refused to let him go. So I will kill your firstborn son.'

  • Lev 25:13
    70%

    13In this year of Jubilee, everyone shall return to their property.