When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
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When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
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And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 15:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 3:27-28 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
- Jeremiah 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
- Malachi 3:5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Genesis 31:42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
- Exodus 3:21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
- Leviticus 25:42-44 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God. “ ‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
- Colossians 4:1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when thou sendest him out free from thee,....…
And when thou sendest him out free from thee,.... When he discharged him from his servitude, and made him a free man:
thou shall not let him go away empty; without anything to support himself, or to put himself in a way of business; he having in the time of his servitude worked entirely for his master, and so could not have got and saved anything for himself.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 13. Thou shalt not let him go away…
Verse 13. Thou shalt not let him go away empty] Because during the time he served thee, he made no property for himself, having been always honest towards thee; and now when he leaves thee, he has nothing to begin the world with.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain thou shalt not let him go away empty--A seasonable…
thou shalt not let him go away empty--A seasonable and wise provision for enabling a poor unfortunate to regain his original status in society, and the motive urged for his kindness and humanity to the Hebrew slave was the remembrance that the whole nation was once a degraded and persecuted band of helots in Egypt. Thus, kindness towards their slaves, unparalleled elsewhere in those days, was inculcated by the Mosaic law; and in all their conduct towards persons in that reduced condition, leniency and gentleness were enforced by an appeal which no Israelite could resist.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. empty] In Pent. only in E (Gen_31:42; Exo_3:21;…
13. empty] In Pent. only in E (Gen_31:42; Exo_3:21; Exo_23:15), J (Exo_34:20) and D (here, and Deu_16:16).
13, 14. Peculiar to D and characteristic of its philanthropy.
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