THEOSISLeviticus 25:39Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.
וְכִֽי־יָמ֥וּךְ אָחִ֛יךָ עִמָּ֖ךְ וְנִמְכַּר־לָ֑ךְ לֹא־תַעֲבֹ֥ד בּ֖וֹ עֲבֹ֥דַת עָֽבֶד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 21:2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- Lev 25:46And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
- Neh 5:5And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.
- Jer 34:14At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.
- Jer 25:14For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.
- Ex 1:14And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
- Jer 30:8And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him:
- Ex 22:3But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.