Leviticus 25:39

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 21:2 : 2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
  • 1 Kgs 9:22 : 22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
  • Neh 5:5 : 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."
  • Lev 25:46 : 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 15:12-14 : 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.
  • Exod 22:3 : 3 If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
  • 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 34:14 : 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.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:40-55
    16 verses
    86%

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

    41then 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.

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

    43You 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.

    45Moreover 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.

    46You 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.

    47"'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;

    48after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

    49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

    50He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

    51If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

    52If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

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

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

    55For 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.

  • Deut 15:11-16
    6 verses
    82%

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

    12If 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.

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

    14you 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.

    15You 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.

    16It 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;

  • Lev 25:24-28
    5 verses
    80%

    24In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

    25"'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

    26If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

    27then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

    28But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    79%

    14You 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:

    15in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Lev 25:35-38
    4 verses
    79%

    35"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

    36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

    37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

    38I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

  • 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.

  • Jer 34:14
    77%

    14At 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.

  • Lev 25:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

    15According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

  • Deut 15:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2This 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.

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

  • Deut 23:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

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

    16he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

  • Jer 34:9
    76%

    9that 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.

  • Exod 22:25
    75%

    25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

  • Deut 15:7
    74%

    7If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

  • Deut 15:9
    74%

    9Beware 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.

  • Deut 24:18
    73%

    18but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.

  • Deut 15:18
    73%

    18It 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.

  • Deut 24:22
    73%

    22You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

  • Deut 23:19
    72%

    19You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:

  • Exod 21:5
    72%

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