Deuteronomy 15:12

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Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 34:14 : 14 “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.
  • Lev 25:39-41 : 39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. 40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, 41 but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
  • Exod 21:2-6 : 2 Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything. 3 If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him. 4 If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself. 5 But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
  • Deut 15:1 : 1 Release for Debt Slaves At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.
  • John 8:35-36 : 35 The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever. 36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 34:14-15
    2 verses
    89%

    14“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.

    15Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.

  • Exod 21:2
    88%

    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

  • Deut 15:13-18
    6 verses
    87%

    13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

    15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

    16However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

    17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).

    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    82%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

    10All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

  • Deut 15:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Release for Debt Slaves At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

    2This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as“the LORD’s cancellation of debts.”

    3You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

  • Lev 25:50-54
    5 verses
    78%

    50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

    51If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,

    52but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

    54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

  • Deut 15:9
    77%

    9Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

  • Deut 21:14
    76%

    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Exod 21:7
    75%

    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

  • Lev 25:46-48
    3 verses
    75%

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

    47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

    48after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

  • Exod 21:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

    5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

  • Deut 15:7
    74%

    7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

    27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

  • Deut 23:15
    74%

    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

  • Deut 15:11
    74%

    11There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

  • Exod 23:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10Sabbaths and Feasts“For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

    11But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

    12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and the resident foreigner may refresh themselves.

  • Deut 24:14
    74%

    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • Lev 25:25-28
    4 verses
    73%

    25“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.

    26If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,

    27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

    28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

  • Lev 25:35
    73%

    35Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 25:44
    72%

    44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

  • Lev 25:15
    72%

    15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

  • Lev 25:6
    72%

    6You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat– you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

  • Acts 7:7
    71%

    7But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God,‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’