Deuteronomy 15:1

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.”

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BSBPD

“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 15:1 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
  2. Exodus 23:10For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
  3. Leviticus 25:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
  4. Deuteronomy 31:10Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
  5. Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
  6. Jeremiah 34:14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
  7. Jeremiah 36:8So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.
  8. Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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