Deuteronomy 15:13

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

and when thou lettest him go out free, from thee, thou shalt not let him go out empty:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.

Hebrew Names Version
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

King James Version
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Lexham English Bible
And when you send him out free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed.

English Standard Version
And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.

New Century Version
When you let slaves go, don't send them away without anything.

New English Translation
If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

Amplified Bible
"When you set him free, you shall not let him go away empty-handed.

New American Standard Bible
"And when you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him goe away emptie,

Legacy Standard Bible
When you let him go to be free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.

Contemporary English Version
And don't just tell them they are free to leave—

Complete Jewish Bible
Moreover, when you set him free, don't let him leave empty-handed;

Darby Translation
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty;

Easy-to-Read Version
But when you let your slave go free, don't send him away with nothing.

George Lamsa Translation
And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed;

Good News Translation
When you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

Literal Translation
And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha thou deliuerest him fre, thou shalt not let him go from the emptye,

American Standard Version
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

Bible in Basic English
And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when thou sendest hym out free from thee, thou shalt not let hym go away emptie:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;

King James Version (1611)
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away emptie:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And when thou shalt send him out free from thee, thou shalt not send him out empty.

English Revised Version
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

Berean Standard Bible
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt not suffre hym go awey voide, to whom thou hast yyue fredom;

Young's Literal Translation
And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;

Update Bible Version
And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

New King James Version
And when you send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed;

New Living Translation
"When you release a male servant, do not send him away empty-handed.

New Life Bible
When you set him free, do not send him away with nothing.

New Revised Standard
And when you send a male slave out from you a free person, you shall not send him out empty-handed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Revised Standard Version
And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.

Contextual Overview

¹² When thy brother a Hebrew man (or a Hebrew woman) selleth himself unto thee, then shall he serve thee six years, - and in the seventh year, shalt thou let him go out free from thee; ¹³ and when thou lettest him go out free, from thee, thou shalt not let him go out empty: ¹⁴ thou shalt, richly load, him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor and out of thy wine-vat, - of that wherewith Yahweh thy God hath blessed thee, shalt thou give unto him; ¹⁵ and thou shalt remember that a servant, thou wast in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God, redeemed thee, - for this cause, am I commanding thee this thing, to-day. ¹⁶ And it shall be, if he shall say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, - because he loveth thee, and thy household, because he is well off with thee, ¹⁷ then shalt thou take an awl and thrust it through his ear unto the door, so shall he be thy servant all his life. And unto thine handmaid also, shalt thou do thus. ¹⁸ It shall not be hard in thine eyes when thou lettest him go out free, from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling, hath he served thee six years, - -so will Yahweh thy God bless thee, in all that thou doest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This is a most humane and merciful addition to the law in Exodus 21:2-11, enforced upon the Israelites by the consideration of their Egyptian bondage. As a faithful servant has made no property for himself while honestly serving his master, so now, when he quits his service, he has nothing to begin the world with except what the kindness of his master may bestow upon him as a remuneration for his zeal and fidelity. Though what was to be bestowed upon servants is not fixed, yet they were to be liberally supplied - Deuteronomy 15:14. Genesis 31:42, Exodus 3:21, Leviticus 25:42-44, Proverbs 3:27, Proverbs 3:28, Jeremiah 22:13, Malachi 3:5, Colossians 4:1

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things, came the word of Yahweh unto Abram, in a vision saying, - Do not fear Abram, am a shield to thee, thine exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said My Lord Yahweh, what canst thou give me, when, I, am going on childless, - and the heir of my house, is Eliezer, of Damascus,

Genesis 15:6
And he had faith in Yahweh, - so he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

Genesis 15:7
And he said unto him, - I, am Yahweh, who brought thee forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:8
And he said, My Lord Yahweh, whereby, can I know that I shall inherit it?

Genesis 15:11
Then came down the birds of prey upon the carcass, and Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:12
And it came to pass when, the sun, was shout to go in. and a deep sleep, had fallen upon Abram, lo! a terror a great darkness, was falling upon him.

Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram - Thou must surely know, that, sojourners, will thy seed become in a land not theirs, and shall serve them and they will humble them, four hundred years;

Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land of thy sojournings - all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession - And I will be to them a God.

Exodus 1:11
So they set over them chiefs of tribute, to the end they might humiliate them with their burdens, - and they built store-cities for Pharaoh, even Pithom and Raamses.

Gill's Notes on the 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 put himself in a way of business; he having in the time of his servitude worked entirely for his master, and so could not have got and saved anything for himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 thee, he has nothing to begin the world with.