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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Levítico 25:39
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"Y si un hermano tuyo llega a ser tan pobre para contigo que se vende a ti, no lo someterás a trabajo de esclavo.
Y cuando tu hermano empobreciere, estando contigo, y se vendiere � ti, no le har�s servir como siervo:
Y cuando tu hermano empobreciere, estando contigo, y se vendiere a ti, no le har�s servir como esclavo.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
be sold: Exodus 21:2, Exodus 22:3, Deuteronomy 15:12, 1 Kings 9:22, 2 Kings 4:1, Nehemiah 5:5, Jeremiah 34:14
compel him to serve as: Heb. serve thyself with him with the service of, etc. Leviticus 25:46, *marg. Exodus 1:14, Jeremiah 25:14, Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 30:8
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:17 - for ever 2 Chronicles 8:9 - But of the 2 Chronicles 28:10 - keep Isaiah 50:1 - or which Jeremiah 34:8 - to proclaim Amos 8:6 - General Matthew 18:25 - commanded Ephesians 6:9 - ye Colossians 4:1 - give
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor,.... The above laws and instructions seem designed to prevent such extreme poverty as obliged to what follows, namely, a brother being sold either to an Israelite or to a stranger, by relieving his wants or lending him money; but when these were insufficient to support him, and keep him from sinking into the lowest state of distress and misery, then he was obliged to be sold, as follows:
and be sold unto thee; either by himself, being ready to starve and perish, or by the sanhedrim, having stolen something, as Aben Ezra observes; in such a case the civil magistrate had a power of selling a man, Exodus 22:3;
thou shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant; such as were Heathens, and bought of them, or taken in war and made slaves of; but an Israelite sold was not to serve as they, either with respect to matter or manner, or time of service; such as were bondmen were put to the hardest service, the greatest drudgery, as well as what was mean and reproachful, and were used in the most rigorous and despotic manner, and were obliged to serve for ever, and were never released; but a brother, an Israelite, sold to another through extreme poverty, was not to be put to any low, mean, base, and disgraceful service, by which it would be known that he was a servant, as Jarchi notes; such as to carry his master's vessels or instruments after him to the bath, or to unloose his shoes; but, as the same writer observes, he was to be employed in the business of the farm, or in some handicraft work, and was to be kindly and gently used, rather as a brother than a servant, and to be freed in the year of jubilee.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The law here appears harmoniously to supplement the earlier one in Exodus 21:1-6. It was another check applied periodically to the tyranny of the rich. Compare Jeremiah 34:8-17.
