Deuteronomy 15:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

Cross References

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord said to me: “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end,

Deuteronomy 15:10

Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 15:17

then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his earlobe into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. “You shall do the same with regard to your female slave.

Deuteronomy 15:19

“Every firstling male born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the Lord your God; you shall not do work with your firstling ox nor shear the firstling of your flock.