Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:
New American Standard Bible
When you set him
King James Version
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
Holman Bible
When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.
International Standard Version
But when you set them free, don't send them away empty-handed.
A Conservative Version
And when thou let him go free from thee, thou shall not let him go empty.
American Standard Version
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:
Amplified
When you set him free, you shall not let him go away empty-handed.
Darby Translation
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty;
Julia Smith Translation
And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty.
King James 2000
And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:
Lexham Expanded Bible
And when you send him [out] free from you, you shall not send him [away] empty-handed.
Modern King James verseion
And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
NET Bible
If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
New Heart English Bible
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
The Emphasized Bible
and when thou lettest him go out free, from thee, thou shalt not let him go out empty:
Webster
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him depart empty:
World English Bible
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
Youngs Literal Translation
And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;
Themes
Benevolence » The duty of » Moses injunction
Liberality » Should be exercised » Toward servants
Sabbatic year » Creditors required to release debtors in
Servants » Slaves or bond » To be furnished liberally, when their servitude expired
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 15:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free. 13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands: 14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.
Cross References
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Exodus 3:21
And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go out you will go out with your hands full.
Leviticus 25:42-44
For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.
Proverbs 3:27-28
Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Jeremiah 22:13
A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.