Leviticus 25:39

Tree of Life Version

“If your brother has grown poor among you and sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave labor.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:22

But Solomon did not make slaves of the children of Israel, for they were the men of war, his servants, his officials, his captains, his charioteers and his horsemen.

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha saying, “Your servant my husband is dead—you know that your servant feared Adonai. Now the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

2 Chronicles 28:10

So now you intend to bring into bondage the children of Judah and Jerusalem as your male and female slaves? Are you not also guilty of transgressions against Adonai your God?

Nehemiah 5:5

And now, though we share the same flesh as our brothers, and our children are just like their children, still we subject our sons and our daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved but our hands are tied since our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard labor with mortar and brick, doing all sorts of work in the fields. In all their labors they worked them with cruelty.

Exodus 21:2

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go free, without payment.

Exodus 22:3

If the item is found in his hand alive—whether ox, donkey or sheep—he is to pay double.

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them also. So I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their own hands.”

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations will serve him—and his son, and his grandson—until the time of his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.’

Jeremiah 30:8

It will be in that day” —it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot— “that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will tear off your bonds. Foreigners will no longer enslave him.

Jeremiah 34:14

‘At the end of seven years you are to set free every man his brother that is a Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you are let him go free from you.’ But your fathers did not obey Me, nor inclined their ear.

Jeremiah 34:8

The word that came to Jeremiah from Adonai, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

Jeremiah 34:9

so that everyone should let his manservant and his maidservant—Hebrew man or Hebrew woman—go free, so that no one should make a slave of a Jew, his brother.

Leviticus 25:46

You may also leave them an inheritance for your children after you, to receive as a possession. These may become your slaves permanently. But over your brothers, Bnei-Yisrael, you must not rule over one another with harshness.

Matthew 18:25

But since he didn’t have the money to repay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.