Jeremiah 34:14
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14 (A)‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; (B)you must set him free from your service.’ But (C)your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.
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Deuteronomy 15:12
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12 (A)“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold[a] to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
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- Deuteronomy 15:12 Or sells himself
2 Kings 17:13-14
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13 Yet the Lord (A)warned Israel and Judah (B)by every prophet (C)and every seer, saying, (D)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
14 But they would not listen, (E)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
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1 Kings 9:22
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22 But (A)of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
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1 Samuel 8:7-8
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7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (A)for they have not rejected you, (B)but they have rejected me from being king over them. 8 According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.
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Romans 7:24
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24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from (A)this body of death?
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Romans 7:14-17
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14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, (A)sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For (B)I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with (C)the law, that it is good. 17 So now (D)it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Zechariah 7:11-12
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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (C)They made their hearts diamond-hard (D)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (E)by his Spirit through (F)the former prophets. (G)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Amos 8:6
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6 that we may buy the poor for (A)silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Amos 2:6
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they sell the righteous for (C)silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
Ezekiel 20:8
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8 (A)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (B)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (C)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 20:4
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4 (A)Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? (B)Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
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Jeremiah 34:8-9
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8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah (A)had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem (B)to make a proclamation of liberty to them, 9 (C)that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, (D)so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.
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Jeremiah 32:30
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30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight (A)from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but (B)provoke me to anger (C)by the work of their hands, declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 11:8-10
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8 (A)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, (B)but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all (C)the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”
9 Again the Lord said to me, (D)“A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They have turned back to (E)the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. (F)They have gone after other gods to serve them. (G)The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.
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Jeremiah 7:25-26
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25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, (A)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 (B)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (C)but stiffened their neck. (D)They did worse than their fathers.
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Isaiah 58:6
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6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
and to break every yoke?
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- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
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.
2 Chronicles 36:16
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16 (A)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (B)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (C)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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2 Chronicles 28:10
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10 And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?
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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 23:10-11
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Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals
10 (A)“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
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Exodus 21:1-4
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Laws About Slaves
21 “Now these are the (A)rules that you shall set before them. 2 (B)When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
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