Jeremiah 34:9
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9 (A)that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, (B)so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.
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2 Corinthians 11:22
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22 Are they Hebrews? (A)So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.
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1 Corinthians 6:8
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8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even (A)your own brothers![a]
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- 1 Corinthians 6:8 Or brothers and sisters
Jeremiah 34:10
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10 And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.
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Jeremiah 30:8
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8 “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord of hosts, that I will (A)break his (B)yoke from off your neck, and I will (C)burst your bonds, (D)and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.[a]
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- Jeremiah 30:8 Or serve him
Jeremiah 25:14
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14 (A)For many nations (B)and great kings shall make slaves even of them, (C)and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
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1 Samuel 14:11
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11 So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming (A)out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.”
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1 Samuel 4:9
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9 (A)Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews (B)as they have been to you; be men and fight.”
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1 Samuel 4:6
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6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, “What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” And when they learned that the ark of the Lord had come to the camp,
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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
Leviticus 25:39-46
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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: 40 he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41 (B)Then he shall go out from you, (C)he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return (D)to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are (E)my servants,[a] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43 (F)You shall not rule over him (G)ruthlessly but (H)shall fear your God. 44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. 45 (I)You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. 46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel (J)you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
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- Leviticus 25:42 Hebrew slaves
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