Deuteronomy 15:14 immediately continues the instruction, specifying how to furnish the freed slave liberally.

Exodus 3:21 recounts Israel leaving Egypt with plunder, a precedent for the principle of not sending slaves away empty.

Colossians 4:1 commands masters to treat bondservants justly and fairly, providing the NT ethical foundation for the OT release provision.

Genesis 31:42 shows Laban's intention to send Jacob away empty, contrasting with God's command not to do so.

Leviticus 25:42-44 grounds the treatment of Israelite slaves in their identity as God's servants, reinforcing why releasing them with provision is just.

Jeremiah 22:13 condemns making neighbors serve for nothing without wages, paralleling the injustice of sending a slave away empty-handed.

Proverbs 3:27 generalizes the duty not to withhold good from those due it, which directly applies to not sending the freed slave empty-handed.