Leviticus 25:47
“‘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,
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- Lev 25:26 : 26 If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,
- 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts. 8 He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes– he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD– he placed the world on them.
- Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
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- Lev 25:35-373 verses85%
35 Debt 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.
36 Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
37 You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
- Lev 25:44-463 verses83%
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.
45 Also 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.
46 You 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 25:48-547 verses82%
48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,
49 or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives– his family– may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.
50 He 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.
51 If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,
52 but 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.
53 He 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.
54 If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
- Lev 25:24-285 verses82%
24 In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.
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.
26 If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,
27 he 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.
28 If 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 25:39-413 verses81%
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.
- Deut 15:3-42 verses77%
3 You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
4 However, 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,
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20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.
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14 You 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.
- Deut 15:11-133 verses75%
11 There 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.
12 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.
13 If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
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7 The 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.
- Ezek 47:22-232 verses74%
22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Lev 25:14-152 verses73%
14 If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
15 You 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 19:33-342 verses73%
33 When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
34 The resident foreigner who lives with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
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10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
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10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
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7 If 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.
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2 If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.
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5 Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
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25 “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
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43 The resident foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
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19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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29 Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.
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7 You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land.
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49 The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the resident foreigner who lives among you.”
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17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
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15 Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
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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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19 Whenever 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.