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

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

New American Bible
When you release a male from your service, as a free person, you shall not send him away empty-handed,

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

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

Exodus 21:2-11 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. . . .

; 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 But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless thee.

Genesis 31:42 Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Exodus 3:21 And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:

Leviticus 25:42-44 For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen. . . .

Proverbs 3:27,28 Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present. . . .

Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Colossians 4:1 Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.