Isaiah 50:1
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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Deuteronomy 32:30
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30 How could (A)one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock (B)had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
Jeremiah 3:8
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8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (A)I had sent her away with (B)a decree of divorce. (C)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (D)and played the whore.
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Matthew 18:25
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25 (A)And since he could not pay, his master ordered him (B)to be sold, with his wife and (C)children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (B)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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2 Kings 4:1
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Elisha and the Widow's Oil
4 Now the wife of one of the (A)sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, (B)but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
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Isaiah 52:3
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3 For thus says the Lord: (A)“You were sold for nothing, and (B)you shall be redeemed without money.”
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Hosea 2:2-4
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2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for (A)she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest (C)I strip her naked
and make her as (D)in the day she was born,
and (E)make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 (F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
(G)because they are children of whoredom.
Mark 10:4-12
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4 They said, (A)“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your (B)hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But (C)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (D)male and female.’ 7 (E)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a] 8 and (F)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 (G)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, (H)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and (I)if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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- Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
Jeremiah 4:18
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18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”
Jeremiah 3:1
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Isaiah 59:1-2
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Evil and Oppression
59 Behold, (A)the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
2 (B)but your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
Psalm 44:12
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12 (A)You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.
2 Kings 17:17
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17 (A)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (B)divination and (C)omens and (D)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
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Laws Concerning Divorce
24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and (A)he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 2 and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, 3 and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, 4 then (B)her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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Esther 7:4
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4 (A)For we have been sold, I and my people, (B)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
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1 Kings 21:25
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Ahab's Repentance
25 ((A)There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
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Exodus 21:7
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7 “When a man (A)sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
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Leviticus 25:39
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39 (A)“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
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