Deuteronomy 15:13

King James Version

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

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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and when thou lettest him go out free, from thee, thou shalt not let him go out empty:

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 And 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 him go free from thee. ¹³ And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: ¹⁴ Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. ¹⁵ And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. ¹⁶ And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; ¹⁷ Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. ¹⁸ It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall 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 the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Genesis 15:6
And he believed in the Lord ; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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

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

Genesis 15:11
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:12
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Exodus 1:11
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, 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.