Leviticus 25:39

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you,  you must not force him to do slave labour.

Cross References

Exodus 21:2

‘When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man  without paying anything.

1 Kings 9:22

But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery;  they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.  Some of our daughters are already enslaved,  but we are powerless  because our fields and vineyards belong to others.’

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’

Leviticus 25:46

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years, each of you must let his fellow Hebrew who sold himself  to you go. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free from your service.”  But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention.

Jeremiah 30:8

On that day – this is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies – I will break his yoke from your neck and tear off your chains, and strangers will never again enslave him.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.” ’

Exodus 22:3

But if this happens after sunrise, the householder is guilty of bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution. If he is unable, he is to be sold because of his theft.

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

Matthew 18:25

Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

2 Chronicles 28:10

Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?

Jeremiah 34:8

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom  to them.

Jeremiah 34:9

As a result, each was to let his male and female Hebrew slaves go free, and no one was to enslave his fellow Judean.