Leviticus 25:38

I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give unto you the land of Canaan, to be unto you a God.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

In Context

37Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

39And if thy brother become poor near thee, and be sold unto thee: thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond-servant.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant: to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Leviticus 11:45For I am the Lord that have brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Numbers 15:41I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.

Jeremiah 31:33(31:32) But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, I place my law in their inward parts, and upon their heart will I write it; and I will be unto them for a God, and they shall be unto me for a people.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:24-39

23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto… Read the whole commentary →

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