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Deuteronomychapter 15

23 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th to 13th century BC · The Law

Original Language

Deuteronomy 15— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 15. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.

The reading

Weekly portion 47 of 54

רְאֵה Re'eh, Deuteronomy 11:26 to 16:17

Read with it: Isaiah 54:11 to 55:5.

The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.

How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

Send him away free, and not empty-handed12

Deuteronomy 15:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

כִּֽי־ki-ifH3588יִמָּכֵ֨רyimakherhe will sell himselfH4376לְךָ֜lekhato <the> youאָחִ֣יךָʾachikkhacountryman yourH251הָֽעִבְרִ֗יhaivri<the> Hebrew [masc]H5680א֚וֹʾoorH176הָֽעִבְרִיָּ֔הhaivriyah<the> Hebrew [fem]H5680וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֖vaavadekhaand he will serve youH5647שֵׁ֣שׁsheshsixH8337שָׁנִ֑יםshanimyearsH8141וּבַשָּׁנָה֙uvashanahand in the yearH8141הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔תhasheviit<the> seventhH7637תְּשַׁלְּחֶ֥נּוּteshallechenuyou will let go himH7971חָפְשִׁ֖יchafeshia free [person]H2670מֵעִמָּֽךְ׃meimakhfrom with <the> youH5973

Rashi on Deuteronomy 15:12

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
כי ימכר לך IF [THY BROTHER …] BE SOLD UNTO THEE by others (not one that sells himself as a servant on account of his destitution, of which case Scripture deals in Leviticus:46 ff); Scripture is speaking of one whom the court has sold for a theft that he has committed. But has it not already been stated.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

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