Deuteronomy 15:13
New International Version
And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed.

New Living Translation
“When you release a male servant, do 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.

Berean Standard Bible
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

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

New King James Version
And when you send him away free from you, 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.

NASB 1995
“When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.

NASB 1977
“And when you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.

Legacy Standard Bible
When you let him go to be free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.

Amplified Bible
When you set him free, you shall not let him go away empty-handed.

Christian Standard Bible
When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.

American Standard Version
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when you have released him as a son of freedom from your presence, you shall not release him with nothing:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And when thou shalt send him out free from thee, thou shalt not send him out empty.

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

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

English Revised Version
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But when you let them go, don't send them away empty-handed.

Good News Translation
When you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

International Standard Version
But when you set them free, don't send them away empty-handed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;

Literal Standard Version
And when you send him away free from you, you do not send him away empty;

Majority Standard Bible
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

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

NET Bible
If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

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.

New Heart English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Release of Hebrew Servants
12If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free. 13And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed. 14You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:12
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

Deuteronomy 15:14
You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.


Treasury of Scripture

And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:

Exodus 21:2-11
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing…

Deuteronomy 15:14
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.

Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And when
וְכִֽי־ (wə·ḵî-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you release him,
תְשַׁלְּחֶ֥נּוּ (ṯə·šal·lə·ḥen·nū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

do not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

send him away
תְשַׁלְּחֶ֖נּוּ (ṯə·šal·lə·ḥen·nū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

empty-handed.
רֵיקָֽם׃ (rê·qām)
Adverb
Strong's 7387: Emptily, ineffectually, undeservedly


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