Leviticus 25:39

The Scriptures 1998

‘And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:22

But Shelomoh did not make slaves of the children of Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 4:1

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared יהוה. And the lender has come to take my two sons to be his slaves.”

2 Chronicles 28:10

“And now you are planning to make the children of Yehuḏ

Nehemiah 5:5

“And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. And see, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been subjected, and there is no power in our hands, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all kinds of work in the field, all their work which they made them do was with harshness.

Exodus 21:2

“When you buy a Heḇ

Exodus 22:3

“If the sun has risen on him, there is guilt for his bloodshed, he shall certainly repay. If he has not the means, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Jeremiah 25:14

‘For they too shall be enslaved by many nations and great sovereigns. And I shall repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands.’ ”

Jeremiah 27:7

‘And all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land comes. And then many nations and great sovereigns shall make him serve them.

Jeremiah 30:8

‘And it shall be in that day,’ declares יהוה  of hosts, ‘that I break his yoke from your neck, and tear off your bonds, and foreigners no more enslave them.

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years each one should set free his Heḇ

Jeremiah 34:8

The word which came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, after Sovereign Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 34:9

that everyone was to set free his male and female slave, the Heḇ

Leviticus 25:46

‘And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 18:25

but as he was unable to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.