Deuteronomy 23:15 BSB

Deuteronomy 23:15

Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee:

KJV

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The case in question is that of a slave who fled from a pagan master to the holy land. It is of course assumed that the refugee was not flying from justice, but only from the tyranny of his lord.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תַסְגִּ֥יר	tas.Gir	you will deliver up	H5462 →
עֶ֖בֶד	'E.ved	a slave	H5650 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֲדֹנָ֑יו	'a.do.Nav	master<s> his	H113 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
יִנָּצֵ֥ל	yi.na.Tzel	he will deliver himself	H5337 →
אֵלֶ֖יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
מֵעִ֥ם	me.'Im	from with	H5973 →
אֲדֹנָֽיו׃	'a.do.Nav	master<s> his	H113 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 30:15
“Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 29:6
  So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in…
- Ezekiel 17:16
  ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
- Ezekiel 17:13
  He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
- Joshua 2:12
  Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
- Ezekiel 17:19
  Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
Through
Obadiah 1:14
Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.
leads to
- Amos 1:9
  This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant…
- Genesis 35:3
  Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
- Psalms 31:8
  You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Deuteronomy

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Deuteronomy