Quotes about Debt
But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
- Leviticus 25:28
If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
- Leviticus 25:51
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
- Leviticus 25:52
Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:54
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
- Deuteronomy 15:3
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 15:12
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:6
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
- 2 Kings 4:1
She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
- 2 Kings 4:7
Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
- Nehemiah 5:3
When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.
- Nehemiah 10:31
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 24:9