Leviticus 25
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And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount a Sinai, saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall b keep a sabbath to the LORD.
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'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
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'but in the c seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn d rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
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e 'What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
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'And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
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'for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land - all its produce shall be for food.
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'And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
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'Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; f on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
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'And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and g proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; h and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
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'That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it i you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.
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'For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; j you shall eat its produce from the field.
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k 'In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
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'And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not l oppress one another.
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m 'According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.
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'According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.
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'Therefore n you shall not oppress one another, o but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
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p 'So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; q and you will dwell in the land in safety.
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'Then the land will yield its fruit, and r you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.
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'And if you say, s "What shall we eat in the seventh year, since t we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?"
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'Then I will u command My blessing on you in the v sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.
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w 'And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat x old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.
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'The land shall not be sold permanently, for y the land is Mine; for you are z strangers and sojourners with Me.
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'And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
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a 'If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if b his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.
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'Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,
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'then c let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.
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'But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; d and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
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'If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it.
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'But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
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'However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
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'Nevertheless e the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
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'And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
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'But f the field of the common-land of their cities may not be g sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
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'If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall h help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
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i 'Take no usury or interest from him; but j fear your God, that your brother may live with you.
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'You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.
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k '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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'And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.
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'As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
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'And then he shall depart from you - he and his children l with him - and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers.
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'For they are m My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
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n 'You shall not rule over him o with rigor, but you p shall fear your God.
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'And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have - from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
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'Moreover you may buy q the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.
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'And r you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
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'Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger's family,
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'after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him;
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'or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself.
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'Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be s according to the time of a hired servant for him.
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'If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.
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'And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.
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'He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.
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'And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee - he and his children with him.
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'For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:46
These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the LORD made between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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Leviticus 26:34
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest - for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:1
At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.
Nehemiah 10:31
If the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year's produce and the exacting of every debt.
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Hebrews 4:9
There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
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2 Kings 19:29
This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
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Cross References
Leviticus 23:24
Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath- rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Leviticus 23:27
Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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Cross References
Isaiah 61:2
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, An...
Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And th...
Jeremiah 34:8
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the...
Jeremiah 34:15
Then you recently turned and did what was right...
Jeremiah 34:17
Therefore thus says the LORD: 'You have not obe...
Luke 4:19
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:13
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
Leviticus 25:28
But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
Leviticus 25:54
And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee - he and his children with him.
Numbers 36:4
"And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:5
What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
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Leviticus 25:6
And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you.
Leviticus 25:7
For your livestock and the beasts that are in your land - all its produce shall be for food.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:10
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 27:24
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession.
Numbers 36:4
"And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:13
You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.
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Leviticus 27:18
But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.
Leviticus 27:23
Then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the LORD.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:14
And if you sell anything to your neighbor or bu...
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker,...
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor opp...
Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your ...
Jeremiah 7:6
If you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherl...
1 Thessalonians 4:6
That no one should take advantage of and defrau...
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:14
You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:32
You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him with rigor, but you shall fear your God.
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Leviticus 19:37
'Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD.'"
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Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety.
Psalms 4:8
I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Jeremiah 23:6
In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Ezekiel 34:25
I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
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Cross References
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:31
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:4
But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
Leviticus 25:5
What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:8
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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Exodus 16:29
"See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
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2 Kings 19:29
This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:10
You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.
Joshua 5:11
And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.
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Cross References
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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Cross References
Genesis 23:4
"I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give...
Exodus 6:4
I have also established My covenant with them, ...
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As w...
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear to my cry;...
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received th...
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, ...
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Cross References
Ruth 2:20
Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" And Naomi said to her, "This man is a relation of ours, one of our close relatives.
Ruth 4:4
"And I thought to inform you, saying, 'Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.' " And he said, "I will redeem it."
Ruth 4:6
And the close relative said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.
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Cross References
Numbers 5:8
But if the man has no relative to whom restitut...
Ruth 3:2
Now Boaz, whose young women you were with, is h...
Ruth 3:9
And he said, "Who are you?" So she answered, "I...
Ruth 3:12
Now it is true that I am a close relative; howe...
Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall...
Jeremiah 32:7
'Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle ...
Jeremiah 32:8
Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the c...
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:50 - 52
Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:10
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 25:13
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:1 - 8
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying:
Joshua 21:2
And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for our livestock.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:2 - 5
Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.
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Acts 4:36
And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus.
Acts 4:37
Having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:7 - 11
If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.
Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.
Deuteronomy 24:15
Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
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Cross References
Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.
Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not charge interest to your brother - interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.
Deuteronomy 23:20
To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 5:9
Then I said, "What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
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Cross References
Leviticus 11:45
For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Leviticus 22:32
You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 22:33
"who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD."
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Cross References
Exodus 21:3
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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Leviticus 25:55
For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Romans 6:22
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ's slave.
1 Corinthians 7:23
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
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Cross References
Ephesians 6:9
And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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Cross References
Exodus 1:13
So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage - in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
Leviticus 25:46
And you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
Leviticus 25:53
He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.
Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.
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Cross References
Exodus 1:17
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
Deuteronomy 25:18
How he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien - Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.
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Cross References
Isaiah 56:3
Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The LORD has utterly separated me from His people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
Isaiah 56:6
Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants - Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant -
Isaiah 56:7
Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.
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Cross References
Isaiah 14:2
Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.
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Cross References
Job 7:1
Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?
Isaiah 16:14
But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.
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