申命记 23:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

其他各種條例“如果一個奴僕離開了他的主人，逃到你那裡來，你不可把他送交他的主人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
若 有 奴 仆 脱 了 主 人 的 手 ， 逃 到 你 那 里 ， 你 不 可 将 他 交 付 他 的 主 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ If an escaped slave comes to you, do not hand over the slave to his master. ¹⁶ Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes, in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him. ¹⁷ No Israelite man or woman must ever become a temple prostitute. ¹⁸ Do not bring a male or female prostitute's pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord , because the Lord your God hates prostitution. ¹⁹ If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don't make them pay back more than you loaned them. ²⁰ You may charge foreigners, but not fellow Israelites. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land you are entering to take as your own. ²¹ If you make a promise to give something to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, because the Lord your God demands it from you. Do not be guilty of sin. ²² But if you do not make the promise, you will not be guilty. ²³ You must do whatever you say you will do, because you chose to make the promise to the Lord your God. ²⁴ If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you wish, but do not put any grapes into your basket.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

We cannot suppose that this law required the Israelites to entertain slaves who had robbed their masters, or left their service without cause; but such only as were cruelly treated, and fled to them for protection, especially from the neighbouring nations. To such they were commanded to afford shelter, and shew great kindness. 1 Samuel 30:15, Obadiah 1:14, Philemon 1:10-19

Reciprocal: Proverbs 30:10 - Accuse not Isaiah 16:4 - mine

Cross-References

Exodus 30:13
Every person who is counted must pay one-fifth of an ounce of silver. (This is set by using one-half of the Holy Place measure, which weighs two-fifths of an ounce.) This amount is a gift to the Lord .

Exodus 30:15
A rich person must not give more than one-fifth of an ounce, and a poor person must not give less. You are paying this to the Lord to buy back your lives.

Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel will be worth twenty gerahs, and a mina will be worth sixty shekels.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. That is, one that has been used ill by a cruel and tyrannical master, and was in danger of his life with him, or of being lamed by him, and therefore obliged to make his escape from him on that account; such an one, when he fell into the hands of an Israelite, was not to be taken and bound, and sent back to his master again, but was to be retained till his master's anger subsided; or however until inquiry could be made into the cause of the difference between him and his master, and matters be made up between them to mutual satisfaction; or if it appeared that the flight of the servant was just, and it was not safe for him to return to his master, then he was to be used as hereafter directed; for it cannot be thought that this law was made to encourage and protect every idle, disobedient, and fugitive servant, which would be very sinful and unjust: the Jewish writers generally understand it of the servants of idolaters fleeing for the sake of religion; Onkelos renders it,

"a servant of the people,''

of Heathen people; the Targum of Jonathan is,

"thou shalt not deliver a stranger (i.e. a proselyte of righteousness, as Maimonides w calls this servant) into the hands of those that worship idols, but he shall be delivered by you, that he may be under the shadow of my Shechinah, because that he fled from the worship of his idol.''

Jarchi makes mention of another sense; that it may be understood of

"a Canaanitish servant of an Israelite that flees (from his master) without the land, where he was not obliged to go with him, and serve him against his will; but I suppose a proselyte is meant;''

and much more then will this hold good of an Hebrew servant in such circumstances. Aben Ezra interprets this of a servant not an Israelite, who, in time of war, flees from his master, not an Israelite also, unto the camp of Israel, and that for the glory of the divine name which is called upon Israel; such an one, though a servant, might not be delivered to his master.

w Hilchot Abadim, c. 8. sect. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The case in question is that of a slave who fled from a pagan master to the holy land. It is of course assumed that the refugee was not flying from justice, but only from the tyranny of his lord.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 23:15. Thou shalt not deliver - the servant which is escaped - unto thee — That is, a servant who left an idolatrous master that he might join himself to God and to his people. In any other case, it would have been injustice to have harboured the runaway.