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Deuteronomy 15:13-15

DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 15:13 When a slave ends his term of service, his former owner is to give him supplies and not let him go empty-handed, to help ensure that he won’t have to return to slavery. The Israelites should desire to treat their slaves kindly as they remember (1) God’s blessings (As the LORD... has blessed you) and (2) their own long years of slavery in Egypt (remember that you were a slave; see Deuteronomy 8:2 and note).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 15:13. _THOU SHALT NOT LET HIM GO AWAY EMPTY_] Because during the time he served thee, he made no property for himself, having been always honest towards thee; and now when he leaves...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    11. THE YEAR OF RELEASE AND LIBERATION OF HEBREW SLAVES CHAPTER 15:1-18 _ 1. The year of release (Deuteronomy 15:1)_ 2. The liberation of the Hebrew slaves (Deuteronomy 15:12) The poor and those wh...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Three laws in the interest of the poor: the Sabbatical year, or year of release (p. 102, Exodus 21:2 *, Leviticus 25:39 *). Deuteronomy 15:1. Every seventh year (probably the same year was observed th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Peculiar to D and characteristic of its philanthropy....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _empty_ In Pent. only in E (Genesis 31:42; Exodus 3:21; Exodus 23:15), J (Exodus 34:20) and D (here, and...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Year of Remission: (2) of Slaves If a Hebrew, man or woman, serves as a slave for six years, in the seventh he shall not only go free but be liberally equipped from his owner's property; as Israe...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 209 THE RELEASE OF BOND-SERVANTS Deuteronomy 15:12. If thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let h...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON TWELVE DEUTERONOMY 14:22 TO DEUTERONOMY 15:23 c. DIFFERENCES IN ECONOMIC PRACTICES (Deuteronomy 14:22 to...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (4) SLAVERY (Deuteronomy 15:12-18) 12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 An...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN THOU SENDEST HIM OUT FREE FROM THEE, THOU SHALT NOT LET HIM GO AWAY EMPTY:_ Thou shalt not let him go away empty - a seasonable and wise provision for enabling a poor unfortunate to regain...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SABBATICAL YEAR This chapter deals with the year of release, or the Sabbatical Year, and should be compared with Leviticus 25. In addition to the rest for the land and the manumission of Hebrew sl...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 15 V1 ‘At the end of every 7 years, you must cancel debts. V2 This is what you must do. Everyon...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כִֽי ־תְשַׁלְּחֶ֥נּוּ חָפְשִׁ֖י מֵֽ עִמָּ֑ךְ...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have provision made for the relief of the poor and the less fortunate at regularly stated intervals. The great ideal is revealed in the words, "There shall be no poor with thee." This, however...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And doth not JESUS when he sends forth his brethren in the freedom of his salvation, send them forth enriched with all spiritual blessings in CHRIST JESUS? Ephesians 1:3....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._And when thou sendest him out free from thee_. Here not only is the _enfranchisement _of slaves enjoined, but an exhortation to liberality is also added, viz., that they should not send away their...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 AND 15. Chapter 14 forbids that the people, as being the children of the living God, should imitate the profane customs which indicated the devotedness of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN THOU SENDEST HIM OUT FREE FROM THEE,.... When he discharged him from his servitude, and made him a free man: THOU SHALL NOT LET HIM GO AWAY EMPTY; without anything to support himself, or to...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [RELEASING DEBTS.] 1 The seuenth yeere a yeere of release for the poore. 7 It must be no let of lending or giuing. 12 An Ebrew seruant, 16 except hee will not depart, must in the seuenth yeere goe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RELEASE OF HEBREW SERVANTS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when thou sendest him out free from thee, having given him his liberty in the seventh year as God commanded, THOU SHALT NOT LET HIM GO AWAY EMPTY;...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SEVENTH YEAR RELEASE OF DEBTS (vs.1-6) Out of compassion for the poor God required creditors to release debtors from their debts at the end of seven years. This surely reminds us of the grace of God...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-18 Here the law concerning Hebrew servants is repeated. There is an addition, requiring the masters to put some small stock into their servants' hands to set up with for themselves, when sent out...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release. Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his n...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 15:13 send H7971 (H8762) free H2670 away H7971 (H8762) empty-handed H7387...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    RELEASE OF HEBREW BONDSMEN AND BONDSWOMEN (DEUTERONOMY 15:12). Similar generosity must be shown to ‘Hebrew bondsmen and bondswomen' when they are released after their seven year contract. What follows...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Laws concerning Sabbatic year and bondservants. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: That we who have received in abundance from God should be rigorous and severe in our demands from poor b...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 15:1. _A release_ of all debts, as well as of servitude, at the end of the sixth year, to the poor who cannot pay. This is much the same as the English law of cancelling bookdebts at the e...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Remember that thou wast a bondman._ REMEMBER In an autobiography of William Jay we read that on one occasion he called to see the famous Mr. John Newton at Olney, and he observed that over the desk...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The rules for the relief of the poor (Levites, strangers, widows, and orphans) by the triennial tithe are followed by others which forbid oppression. DEUTERONOMY 15:1. Seven years. Dur...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE YEAR OF RELEASE FOR THE BENEFIT OF DEBTORS AND THE EMANCIPATION OF HEBREW SLAVES. THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE FIRSTBORN...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter fifteen, At the end of every seven years you're to make a release (Deuteronomy 15:1). All of the debts were to be forgiven in the seventh year. Now, you're not to demand it again after the se...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Colossians 4:1; Exodus 21:2; Exodus 3:21; Genesis 31:42; Jeremiah 22:

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