Deuteronomy 23:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ “You shall not return to their owners slaves who have escaped to you from their owners.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ You shall not give up to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Don’t return slaves to owners if they’ve escaped and come to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ You shall not deliver a servant who has fled to you to his master.

Deuteronomy 23:15 Cross References

1 Samuel 30:15

David said to him, “Will you take me down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.”

Obadiah 1:14

You should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.

Deuteronomy 23:16

They shall reside with you, in your midst, in any place they choose in any one of your towns, wherever they please; you shall not oppress them.

Leviticus 26:12

I will be your God, and you shall be my people.

Numbers 5:3

you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp; they must not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.

Isaiah 12:6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 33:21

But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams where no galley with oars can go nor stately ship can pass.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing