Leviticus 25:39 - Revised Standard Version

³⁹ “And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ And if your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondman (a slave not eligible for redemption),

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.

Common English Bible

³⁹ If one of your fellow Israelites faces financial difficulty with you and sells themselves to you, you must not make him work as a slave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ If thy brother constrained by poverty sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.

Leviticus 25:39 Cross References

1 Kings 9:22

But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children; yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved; but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 21:2

When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

Exodus 22:3

“If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him;

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

Jeremiah 30:8

“And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break the yoke from off their neck, and I will burst their bonds, and strangers shall no more make servants of them.

Jeremiah 34:14

‘At the end of six years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Jeremiah 34:8

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

Jeremiah 34:9

that every one should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.

Leviticus 25:46

You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

Matthew 18:25

and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.