Deuteronomy 15:13
If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
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- Gen 31:42 : 42 If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
- Exod 3:21 : 21 “I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed.
- Lev 25:42-44 : 42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. 43 You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God. 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.
- Prov 3:27-28 : 27 Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help. 28 Do not say to your neighbor,“Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.
- Jer 22:13 : 13 Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
- Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
- Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
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- Deut 15:7-126 verses87%
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.
8Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.
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.
10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
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.
12Release 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.
- Deut 15:14-185 verses84%
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.
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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.
- Exod 21:2-32 verses80%
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.
3If 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.
- Lev 25:39-435 verses78%
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.
43You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
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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 15:1-44 verses76%
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.
4However, there should not be any poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,
- Jer 34:9-102 verses75%
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.
- Lev 25:52-543 verses73%
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,
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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.
- Deut 24:14-152 verses73%
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.
15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- Deut 24:18-192 verses72%
18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.
19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.
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27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
- Exod 21:26-272 verses71%
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.
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5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
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10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.
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11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
- Lev 25:35-362 verses71%
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.
36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
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22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.
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21“I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed.
- Lev 25:47-482 verses70%
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,
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10Then you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks before the LORD your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.
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1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.
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7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
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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.