Jeremiah 34:9

World English Bible (2000)

that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:6 : 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
  • Gen 14:13 : 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
  • Gen 40:15 : 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
  • Exod 3:18 : 18 They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
  • Lev 25:39-46 : 39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave. 40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: 41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God. 44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
  • Deut 15:12 : 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
  • 1 Sam 4:6 : 6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" They understood that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.
  • 1 Sam 4:9 : 9 Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!"
  • 1 Sam 14:11 : 11 Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, "Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!"
  • Jer 25:14 : 14 For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
  • Jer 27:7 : 7 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
  • Jer 30:8 : 8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
  • Jer 34:10 : 10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
  • 1 Cor 6:8 : 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 34:10-17
    8 verses
    88%

    10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

    11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

    12 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

    13 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

    14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

    15 You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

    16 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.

    17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Jer 34:8
    83%

    8 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

  • Deut 15:12-18
    7 verses
    80%

    12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

    14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

    15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.

    16 It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;" because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

    17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

    18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

  • Exod 21:2
    78%

    2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

  • Lev 25:39-44
    6 verses
    76%

    39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

    40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

    41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

    42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

    43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

    44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

  • Deut 15:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

    2 This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.

    3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Deut 23:15
    72%

    15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

  • Exod 21:7
    72%

    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

  • Exod 21:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    71%

    53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

    54 If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

    55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Exod 12:44
    71%

    44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

  • Deut 24:14
    70%

    14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

  • Lev 25:46
    70%

    46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

  • Jer 30:8
    69%

    8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;

  • Exod 9:1
    69%

    1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Jer 50:33
    69%

    33 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

  • Deut 21:14
    69%

    14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

  • Isa 14:3
    69%

    3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

  • Acts 7:7
    69%

    7 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'

  • Deut 15:9
    68%

    9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

  • 1 Cor 7:22
    68%

    22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    68%

    10 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves. Aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?

  • Neh 4:22
    68%

    22 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, "Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day."

  • Gen 44:9
    68%

    9 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."