Leviticus 25
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w The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into x the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord.
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For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,
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but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
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y You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
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The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you,
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and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: z all its yield shall be for food.
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"You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years.
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Then you shall sound a the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. b On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
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And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and c proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of d you shall return to his clan.
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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it e you shall neither sow nor reap y what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.
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For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. f You may eat the produce of the field.
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d "In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
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And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, g you shall not wrong one another.
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h You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.
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If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
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i You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.
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j "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then k you will dwell in the land securely.
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l The land will yield its fruit, and m you will eat your fill k and dwell in it securely.
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And if you say, n 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, if o we may not sow or gather in our crop?'
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I will p command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
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q When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of r the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.
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"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for s the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.
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"If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, t then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
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If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
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let u him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.
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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 v be released, and w he shall return to his property.
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"If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
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If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; v it shall not be released in the jubilee.
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But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and v they shall be released in the jubilee.
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As for x the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.
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And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.
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But the fields y of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
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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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"If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and m your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan,
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then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,
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or his uncle or his cousin may n redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he o grows rich he may redeem himself.
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He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be p rated as the time of a hired servant.
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If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.
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If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.
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He shall treat him as a servant hired year by year. l He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.
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And if he is not redeemed by these means, then q he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.
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For it is r 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.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:46
These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
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Cross References
Exodus 23:10 - 11
For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield.
Leviticus 26:34 - 35
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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2 Kings 19:29
And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 37:30
And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:12
For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.
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Leviticus 23:24
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Isaiah 27:13
And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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Leviticus 23:24
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Leviticus 23:27
Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.
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Cross References
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because ...
Jeremiah 34:8
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, a...
Jeremiah 34:13
Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself...
Jeremiah 34:15
You recently repented and did what was right in...
Jeremiah 34:17
Therefore, thus says the Lord : You have not ob...
Ezekiel 46:17
But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance t...
Isaiah 61:2
To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favor, and ...
Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and m...
Luke 4:19
To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:24
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
Numbers 36:4
And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:4 - 5
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
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Leviticus 25:5
You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
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Leviticus 25:6 - 7
The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:10
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:33
When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:18
But if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
Leviticus 27:23
Then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord.
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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.
Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Leviticus 19:14
You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:32
You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
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Cross References
Leviticus 18:4 - 5
You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:5 - 6
Your threshing shall last to the time of the gr...
Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you go over the Jordan and live in the...
Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and...
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel wil...
Ezekiel 34:25
I will make with them a covenant of peace and b...
Ezekiel 34:28
They shall no more be a prey to the nations, no...
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Cross References
Psalms 85:12
Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
Ezekiel 34:26 - 27
And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
Deuteronomy 11:15
And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Joel 2:19
The Lord answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Joel 2:26
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:18
Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
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Cross References
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious 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 be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?
Luke 12:22
And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.
Luke 12:29
And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:4 - 5
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
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Deuteronomy 28:8
The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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2 Kings 19:29
And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:10
You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:43
"Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, ...
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then I will pluck you up from my land that I ha...
Psalms 85:1
Lord, you were favorable to your land; you rest...
Hosea 9:3
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, ...
Joel 2:18
Then the Lord became jealous for his land and h...
Joel 3:2
I will gather all the nations and bring them do...
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Cross References
Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he ...
Ruth 3:9
He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am...
Ruth 3:12
And now it is true that I am a redeemer. Yet th...
Ruth 4:4
So I thought I would tell you of it and say, 'B...
Ruth 4:6
Then the redeemer said, "I cannot redeem it for...
Jeremiah 32:7 - 8
Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle w...
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:50 - 52
He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:21
But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:13
In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25:41
Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.
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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
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
Numbers 35:2
Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
Joshua 21:2 - 40
And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:2
Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
1 Chronicles 13:2
And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and from the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.
Acts 4:36 - 37
Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus.
Joshua 21:11 - 42
They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
1 Chronicles 6:55 - 81
To them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands.
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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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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 25:25
If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Leviticus 25:35
If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
Leviticus 25:39
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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Cross References
Nehemiah 5:1 - 5
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.
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Leviticus 25:26
If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it.
Leviticus 25:47
If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan.
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Cross References
Job 7:1
Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
Isaiah 16:14
But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain 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.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:46
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 you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
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Leviticus 25:41
Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.
Exodus 21:2 - 3
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
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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.
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