Deuteronomy 15:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Gen 31:42 : 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
  • Exod 3:21 : 21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
  • Lev 25:42-44 : 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.
  • Prov 3:27-28 : 27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do it. 28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, Tomorrow I will give it to you," When you have it by you.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:7-12
    6 verses
    87%

    7If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, 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;

    8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

    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.

    10You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

    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, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

  • Deut 15:14-18
    5 verses
    84%

    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 tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

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

    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.

  • Jer 34:14
    82%

    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.

  • Exod 21:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

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

    3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Lev 25:39-43
    5 verses
    78%

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

    40As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, 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.

  • Deut 23:15
    76%

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

  • Deut 15:1-4
    4 verses
    76%

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

    2This is the manner 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.

    4However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

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

  • Lev 25:52-54
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    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.

  • Deut 21:14
    73%

    14It 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.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 24:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Deut 14:27
    72%

    27The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

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

  • Exod 21:5
    71%

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

  • Deut 24:10
    71%

    10When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

  • Exod 21:11
    71%

    11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

  • Lev 25:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

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

  • Deut 24:22
    71%

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

  • Exod 3:21
    71%

    21I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

  • Lev 25:47-48
    2 verses
    70%

    47"'If a stranger or sojourner 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;

  • Deut 16:10
    70%

    10You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:

  • Deut 22:1
    70%

    1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

  • Lev 25:27
    69%

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