Jeremiah 2:14
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14 Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
Why then has he become plunder?(A)
Exodus 4:22
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22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.(A)
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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)
Ecclesiastes 2:7
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7 I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
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Genesis 15:3
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3 And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”(A)
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