Deuteronomy 23:15
Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Sam 30:15 : 15 David said to him,“Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said,“Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
- Obad 1:14 : 14 You should not have stood at the fork in the road to slaughter those trying to escape. You should not have captured their refugees when they suffered adversity.
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16Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.
- Deut 24:14-152 verses77%
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 15:12-187 verses76%
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.
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 25:39-402 verses76%
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,
- Lev 25:42-443 verses75%
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.
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.
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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 24:17-182 verses74%
17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
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.
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10Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you are found guilty.
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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 21:4-52 verses72%
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,’
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9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.
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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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22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.
- Deut 5:14-152 verses72%
14but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the resident foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.
15Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
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21“You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Exod 23:32-332 verses71%
32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.
33They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
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9“You must not oppress a resident foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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33When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
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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.
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12be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery.
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13You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.
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12Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.
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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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6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
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8You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.
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14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
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45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.
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9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
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14For the LORD your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
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17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
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6The Ten Commandments“I am the LORD your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.
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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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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.
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15“You shall not steal.
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17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.