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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neh 5:5 — Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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Gen 37:27 |
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother [and] our flesh. And his brethren were content. |
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Isa 58:7 |
[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? |
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Jam 2:5 |
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? |
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Jam 2:6 |
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? |
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Exd 21:1 |
Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. |
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Exd 21:2 |
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. |
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Exd 21:3 |
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. |
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Exd 21:4 |
If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. |
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Exd 21:5 |
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: |
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Lev 25:39 |
And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: |
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Lev 25:40 |
[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: |
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Lev 25:41 |
And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. |
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Lev 25:42 |
For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. |
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Lev 25:43 |
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. |
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2Ki 4:1 |
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. |
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Mat 18:25 |
But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Nehemiah 5:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Neh/5/5.html>.
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