Exodus 21:2
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2 “If you buy (A)a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you.
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Exodus 21:2
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Hebrew Servants(A)(B)
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant,(C) he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free,(D) without paying anything.
Leviticus 25:39
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39 ‘Now (A)if a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.
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Leviticus 25:39
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39 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.(A)
2 Kings 4:1
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The Widow’s Oil
4 Now a woman of the wives of (A)the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and (B)the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
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2 Kings 4:1
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The Widow’s Olive Oil
4 The wife of a man from the company(A) of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor(B) is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
Nehemiah 5:5
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5 And now (A)our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, (B)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and [a]we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
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- Nehemiah 5:5 Lit there is no power in our hands
Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Although we are of the same flesh and blood(A) as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.(B) Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”(C)
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