Leviticus 25:39

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Exodus 21:2

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee: in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

1 Kings 9:22

But of the children of Israel Solomon made not any to be bondmen, but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the chariots and horses.

Nehemiah 5:5

And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren; and our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters; and some of our daughters are bondwomen already. Neither have we wherewith to redeem them; and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead. And thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God: and, behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Leviticus 25:46

And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.

Jeremiah 34:14

At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother, being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee. And your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.

Jeremiah 30:8

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great kings shall serve him.

Jeremiah 25:14

For they have served them, whereas they were many nations and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands.

Exodus 22:3

But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.

Exodus 1:14

And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

Matthew 18:25

And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

2 Chronicles 28:10

Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done: for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.

Jeremiah 34:8

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that king Sedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making a proclamation:

Jeremiah 34:9

That every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that they should not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their brethren.