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• Exodus 21:2

  “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

• Exodus 21:3

  If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

• Exodus 21:4

  If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

• Exodus 21:5

  But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

• Exodus 21:6

  then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

• Exodus 22:10

  “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

• Exodus 22:11

  the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

• Exodus 22:12

  But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

• Exodus 22:13

  If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

• Exodus 22:14

  “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

• Exodus 22:15

  If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

• Leviticus 25:14

  “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

• Leviticus 25:15

  According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

• Leviticus 25:16

  According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

• Leviticus 25:17

  You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 25:25

  “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

• Leviticus 25:26

  If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

• Leviticus 25:27

  then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:28

  But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:29

  “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

• Leviticus 25:30

  If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:32

  “‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

• Leviticus 25:33

  The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

• Leviticus 25:34

  But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

• Leviticus 25:35

  “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

• Leviticus 25:36

  Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

• Leviticus 25:38

  I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

• Leviticus 25:39

  “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

• Leviticus 25:40

  As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

• Leviticus 25:41

  then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

• Leviticus 25:47

  “‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;

• Leviticus 25:48

  after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

• Leviticus 25:49

  or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

• Leviticus 25:50

  He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

• Leviticus 25:51

  If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

• Leviticus 25:52

  If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

• Leviticus 25:53

  As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

• Leviticus 25:54

  If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

• Leviticus 25:55

  For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

• 2 Kings 4:1

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

• 2 Kings 4:2

  Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

• 2 Kings 4:3

  Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from of all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

• 2 Kings 4:4

  Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

• 2 Kings 4:5

  So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

• 2 Kings 4:6

  When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

• 2 Kings 4:7

  Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 10:31

  and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

• Job 20:18

  That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

• Job 20:19

  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

• Matthew 5:25

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Matthew 5:26

  Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

• Matthew 5:40

  If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

• Matthew 18:23

  Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

• Matthew 18:24

  When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

• Matthew 18:25

  But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

• Matthew 18:26

  The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

• Matthew 18:27

  The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

• Matthew 18:28

  “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

• Matthew 18:29

  “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

• Matthew 18:30

  He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

• Matthew 18:31

  So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

• Matthew 18:32

  Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

• Matthew 18:33

  Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

• Luke 20:9

  He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

• Luke 20:10

  At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

• Luke 20:11

  He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

• Luke 20:12

  He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

• Luke 20:13

  The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

• Luke 20:14

  “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

• Luke 20:15

  They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

• Luke 20:16

  He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”