Kindness for Poor Brothers
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"If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, z you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
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a Take no interest from him or profit, but b fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
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a You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
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c I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
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d "If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
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he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.
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v Then he shall go out from you, e he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return f to the possession of his fathers.
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For they are g my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
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h You shall not rule over him i ruthlessly but j shall fear your God.
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As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
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k You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.
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You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel l you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:7 - 8
If among you, one of your brothers should becom...
Psalms 41:1
Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In t...
Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals generously an...
Psalms 112:9
He has distributed freely; he has given to the ...
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker,...
Acts 11:29
So the disciples determined, everyone according...
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees hi...
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Cross References
Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Nehemiah 5:9
So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Malachi 3:5
Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
Leviticus 25:55
For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 22:32 - 33
And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 26:13
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
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Cross References
Exodus 21:2
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
Deuteronomy 15:12
If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
1 Kings 9:22
But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.
Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:28
But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
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Cross References
Exodus 21:3
If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:13
In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25:28
But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:55
For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
1 Corinthians 7:23
You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
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Cross References
Ephesians 6:9
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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Cross References
Exodus 1:13 - 14
So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves
Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
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Cross References
Isaiah 14:1 - 2
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 56:3
Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, "The Lord will surely separate me from his people"; and let not the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah 56:6
And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant -
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Cross References
Exodus 1:13 - 14
So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves
Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
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