Deuteronomy 15:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years -- then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 34:14 : 14 At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear.
  • Lev 25:39-41 : 39 `And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service; 40 as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, -- 41 then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.
  • Exod 21:2-6 : 2 `When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought; 3 if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he `is' owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him; 4 if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters -- the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself. 5 `And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free; 6 then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.
  • Deut 15:1 : 1 `At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,
  • John 8:35-36 : 35 and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age; 36 if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 34:14-15
    2 verses
    89%

    14 At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, yea, thou hast sent him forth free from thee: and your fathers hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear.

    15 `And ye turn back, ye to-day, and ye do that which is right in Mine eyes, to proclaim liberty each to his neighbour, and ye make a covenant before Me in the house over which My name is called.

  • Exod 21:2
    88%

    2 `When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

  • Deut 15:13-18
    6 verses
    87%

    13 And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;

    14 thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; `of' that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,

    15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

    16 `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because `it is' good for him with thee --

    17 then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put `it' through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.

    18 `It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    82%

    39 `And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

    40 as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

    41 then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

    42 `For they `are' My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold `with' the sale of a servant;

  • Jer 34:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9 to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant -- the Hebrew and the Hebrewess -- free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother;

    10 and hearken do all the heads, and all the people who have come in to the covenant to send forth each his man-servant and each his maid-servant free, so as not to lay service on them any more, yea, they hearken, and send them away;

  • Deut 15:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1 `At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,

    2 and this `is' the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan `is' to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

    3 of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;

  • Lev 25:50-54
    5 verses
    78%

    50 `And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.

    51 `If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption `money', from the money of his purchase.

    52 `And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption `money';

    53 as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.

    54 `And if he is not redeemed in these `years', then he hath gone out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

  • Deut 15:9
    77%

    9 `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near `is' the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;

  • Deut 21:14
    76%

    14 `And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

  • Exod 21:7
    75%

    7 `And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

  • Lev 25:46-48
    3 verses
    75%

    46 and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy `for' a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

    47 `And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth `riches', and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

    48 after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,

  • Exod 21:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters -- the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

    5 `And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

  • Deut 15:7
    74%

    7 `When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

    27 and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.

  • Deut 23:15
    74%

    15 `Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;

  • Deut 15:11
    74%

    11 because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

  • Exod 23:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10 `And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

    11 and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.

    12 `Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

  • Deut 24:14
    74%

    14 `Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

  • Lev 25:25-28
    4 verses
    73%

    25 `When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

    26 and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient `for' its redemption,

    27 then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold `it', and he hath returned to his possession.

    28 `And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.

  • Lev 25:35
    73%

    35 `And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7 `When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

  • Lev 25:44
    72%

    44 `And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast `are' of the nations who `are' round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

  • Lev 25:15
    72%

    15 by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth sell to thee;

  • Lev 25:6
    72%

    6 `And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;

  • Acts 7:7
    71%

    7 and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.