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Isaiah 50:1
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Isaiah 50:1
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50 Thus says the Lord:
Where is your mother’s bill of divorce
with which I dismissed her?
Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
No, because of your sins you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.(A)
Isaiah 50:1
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Isaiah 50:1
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Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience
50 This is what the Lord says:
Deuteronomy 32:30
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Deuteronomy 32:30
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30 How could one have routed a thousand
and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
the Lord had given them up?(A)
Deuteronomy 32:30
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Deuteronomy 32:30
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Jeremiah 3:8
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Jeremiah 3:8
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8 She[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.(A)
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- 3.8 Gk mss Syr: Heb I
Jeremiah 3:8
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Jeremiah 3:8
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8 I gave faithless Israel(A) her certificate of divorce(B) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(C) she also went out and committed adultery.
Matthew 18:25
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Matthew 18:25
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25 and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.
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Matthew 18:25
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Matthew 18:25
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25 Since he was not able to pay,(A) the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold(B) to repay the debt.
Nehemiah 5:5
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”(A)
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Nehemiah 5:5
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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)
2 Kings 4:1
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2 Kings 4:1
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Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
4 Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”(A)
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2 Kings 4:1
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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.”
Isaiah 52:3
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Isaiah 52:3
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3 For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.(A)
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Isaiah 52:3
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Isaiah 52:3
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3 For this is what the Lord says:
Hosea 2:2-4
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Hosea 2:2-4
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Israel’s Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption
2 Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her prostitution from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,(A)
3 or I will strip her naked
and expose her as in the day she was born
and make her like a wilderness
and turn her into a parched land
and kill her with thirst.(B)
4 Upon her children also I will have no pity,
because they are children of prostitution.(C)
Hosea 2:2-4
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Hosea 2:2-4
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Israel Punished and Restored
2 “Rebuke your mother,(A) rebuke her,
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous(B) look from her face
and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise I will strip(C) her naked
and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(D)
I will make her like a desert,(E)
turn her into a parched land,
and slay her with thirst.
4 I will not show my love to her children,(F)
because they are the children of adultery.(G)
Mark 10:4-12
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Mark 10:4-12
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4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”(A) 5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’(B) 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,[a](C) 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.(D) 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,(E) 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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- 10.7 Other ancient authorities lack and be joined to his wife
Mark 10:4-12
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Mark 10:4-12
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4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”(A)
5 “It was because your hearts were hard(B) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](C) 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c](D) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.(E) 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”(F)
Jeremiah 4:18
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Jeremiah 4:18
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18 Your ways and your doings
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom; how bitter it is!
It has reached your very heart.”(A)
Jeremiah 4:18
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Jeremiah 4:18
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Unfaithful Israel
3 If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
Would not such a land be greatly polluted?
You have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
and would you return to me?
says the Lord.(A)
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- 3.1 Gk Syr: Heb Saying, If
Jeremiah 3:1
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Isaiah 59:1-2
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Isaiah 59:1-2
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Injustice and Oppression to Be Punished
59 See, the Lord’s arm is not too short to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.(A)
2 Rather, your iniquities have been barriers
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.(B)
Isaiah 59:1-2
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Isaiah 59:1-2
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Psalm 44:12
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Psalm 44:12
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12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.(A)
Psalm 44:12
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Psalm 44:12
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12 You sold your people for a pittance,(A)
gaining nothing from their sale.
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