Leviticus 25:42
Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 25:55 : 55 because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
- 1 Cor 7:21-23 : 21 Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity. 22 For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave. 23 You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lev 25:53-553 verses84%
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,
55because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Lev 25:43-464 verses81%
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.
45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
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.
- Lev 25:38-414 verses80%
38I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan– to be your God.
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.
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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.
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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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15Purity 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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68Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- Deut 15:12-132 verses75%
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.
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2“I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
- Jer 34:9-113 verses73%
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.
11But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.
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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.’
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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.
- Deut 15:15-184 verses73%
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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13I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
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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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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.
- Jer 34:13-142 verses73%
13“The LORD God of Israel has a message for you.‘I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt where they had been slaves. It stipulated,
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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23The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.
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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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2Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Israel will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the LORD’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
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10They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.
- Exod 12:44-452 verses72%
44But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.
45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.
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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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23You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.
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51After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.
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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.
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23and I said to you,‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”
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16Yes, LORD! I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You saved me from death.
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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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13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
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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,
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11No! Go, you men only, and serve the LORD, for that is what you want.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.
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14But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.
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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.