Deuteronomy 15:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.”
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BSBPD
“And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 15:13 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- Exodus 3:21And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
- Leviticus 25:42Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
- Proverbs 3:27Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
- Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Colossians 4:1Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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