Jeremiah 34:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

That every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should enslave them, a Jew his brother.

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  • Exod 2:6 : 6 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. She had compassion on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
  • Gen 14:13 : 13 And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he lived by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.
  • Gen 40:15 : 15 For indeed I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews: and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
  • Exod 3:18 : 18 And they shall listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
  • Lev 25:39-46 : 39 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee: 41 And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God. 44 Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.
  • Deut 15:12 : 12 And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
  • 1 Sam 4:6 : 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean? And they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp.
  • 1 Sam 4:9 : 9 Be strong and conduct yourselves like men, O Philistines, that you do not become servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight.
  • 1 Sam 14:11 : 11 Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, "Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves."
  • Jer 25:14 : 14 For many nations and great kings shall enslave them also: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
  • Jer 27:7 : 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the very time of his land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.
  • Jer 30:8 : 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more enslave him.
  • Jer 34:10 : 10 Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, and that none should enslave themselves anymore, they obeyed and let them go.
  • 1 Cor 6:8 : 8 No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 34:10-17
    8 verses
    88%

    10Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, and that none should enslave themselves anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

    11But afterward they turned and forced the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

    12Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

    13Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

    14At 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.

    15And you had now turned and done what was right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.

    16But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be your servants and your handmaids.

    17Therefore thus says the LORD: You have not listened to me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Jer 34:8
    83%

    8This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them:

  • Deut 15:12-18
    7 verses
    80%

    12And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.

    14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

    15And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.

    16And it shall be, if he says to you, 'I will not go away from you,' because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

    17Then you shall take an awl, and pierce it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also unto your maidservant, you shall do likewise.

    18It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

  • Exod 21:2
    78%

    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, without paying anything.

  • Lev 25:39-44
    6 verses
    76%

    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

    40But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee:

    41And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

    42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

    43You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

    44Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.

  • Deut 15:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

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

    2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor who lends anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it from his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD'S release.

    3Of a foreigner, you may require it again, but what is yours with your brother your hand shall release;

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Deut 23:15
    72%

    15You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you:

  • Exod 21:7
    72%

    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

  • Exod 21:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5And if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    71%

    53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

    54And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

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

  • Exod 12:44
    71%

    44But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

  • Deut 24:14
    70%

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

  • Lev 25:46
    70%

    46And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  • Jer 30:8
    69%

    8For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more enslave him.

  • Exod 9:1
    69%

    1Then the LORD said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Jer 50:33
    69%

    33Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all who took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

  • Deut 21:14
    69%

    14And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

  • Isa 14:3
    69%

    3And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

  • Acts 7:7
    69%

    7And the nation to whom they will be in bondage, I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come out, and serve me in this place.

  • Deut 15:9
    68%

    9Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

  • 1 Cor 7:22
    68%

    22For he who is called in the Lord while a servant is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's servant.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
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    10And now you purpose to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen for yourselves, but are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?

  • Neh 4:22
    68%

    22At the same time I also said to the people, Let every man and his servant stay at night in Jerusalem, that they may be a guard to us by night, and a labor force by day.

  • Gen 44:9
    68%

    9Whichever of your servants it is found with, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves.