Imamat 25:39

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apabila saudaramu jatuh miskin di antaramu, sehingga menyerahkan dirinya kepadamu, maka janganlah memperbudak dia.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apabila saudaramu jatuh miskin di antaramu, sehingga menyerahkan dirinya kepadamu, maka janganlah memperbudak dia.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jikalau saudaramu yang sertamu itu telah menjadi miskin dan dijualnya dirinya kepadamu, jangan kamu menyuruh dia mengerjakan pekerjaan seorang sahaya.

Contextual Overview

³⁹ If thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poore, and be solde vnto thee, thou shalt not compell hym to serue as a bonde seruaunt: ⁴⁰ But as an hired seruaunt, and as a soiourner he shalbe with thee, and shall serue thee vnto the yere of Iubilee. ⁴¹ And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with hym, and shall returne vnto his owne kinred agayne, and vnto the possession of his fathers shall he returne. ⁴² For they are my seruauntes, which I brought out of the lande of Egypt, and shall not therfore be solde as bondmen. ⁴³ Thou shalt not rule ouer hym cruelly, but shalt feare thy God. ⁴⁴ Thy bondseruaunt and thy bondemayde which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye purchase seruauntes and maydes. ⁴⁵ Moreouer, of the children of ye straungers that are soiourners among you, of them shall ye bye, & of their families that are with you, which they begat in your lande: these shalbe your possession. ⁴⁶ And ye shall take them as inheritauce for your children after yon, to possesse them for an inheritaunce, they shalbe your bondmen for euer: but ouer your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one ouer another cruelly. ⁴⁷ If a soiourner or straunger waxe riche by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by hym waxe poore, and sell hym selfe vnto the straunger or soiourner by thee, or to the stocke of the straungers kinne: ⁴⁸ After that he is solde, he may be redeemed agayne: one of his brethren may redeeme hym:

Bible Verse Review
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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.