Deuteronomy 15:12 Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:12

12: "If an Israelite man or woman voluntarily becomes your servant and serves you for six years, in the seventh year you must set that servant free.

Jeremiah 34:14

  1. I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years. But this was never done.

Leviticus 25:39

  1. "If any of your Israelite relatives go bankrupt and sell themselves to you, do not treat them as slaves.
  2. Treat them instead as hired servants or as resident foreigners who live with you, and they will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee.
  3. At that time they and their children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clan and ancestral property.

Exodus 21:2

  1. "If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.
  2. If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him.
  3. "If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.
  4. But the slave may plainly declare, `I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.'
  5. If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will belong to his master forever.

Deuteronomy 15:1

  1. "At the end of every seventh year you must cancel your debts.

John 8:35

  1. A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever.
  2. So if the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free.
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