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Lamentations 5:13
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Lamentations 5:13
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13 Young men are led away to work at millstones,
and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:13
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Lamentations 5:13
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13 Young men toil at the millstones;
boys stagger under loads of wood.
Judges 16:21
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Judges 16:21
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21 So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.
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Judges 16:21
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Judges 16:21
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21 Then the Philistines(A) seized him, gouged out his eyes(B) and took him down to Gaza.(C) Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain(D) in the prison.
Matthew 23:4
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Matthew 23:4
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4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
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Matthew 23:4
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Matthew 23:4
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4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.(A)
Isaiah 58:6
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Isaiah 58:6
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6 “No, this is the kind of fasting I want:
Free those who are wrongly imprisoned;
lighten the burden of those who work for you.
Let the oppressed go free,
and remove the chains that bind people.
Isaiah 58:6
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Isaiah 58:6
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Isaiah 47:2
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Isaiah 47:2
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2 Take heavy millstones and grind flour.
Remove your veil, and strip off your robe.
Expose yourself to public view.[a]
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- 47:2 Hebrew Bare your legs; pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:2
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Isaiah 47:2
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Job 31:10
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Job 31:10
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10 then let my wife serve[a] another man;
let other men sleep with her.
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- 31:10 Hebrew grind for.
Job 31:10
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Job 31:10
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Nehemiah 5:1-5
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Nehemiah 5:1-5
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Nehemiah Defends the Oppressed
5 About this time some of the men and their wives raised a cry of protest against their fellow Jews. 2 They were saying, “We have such large families. We need more food to survive.”
3 Others said, “We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine.”
4 And others said, “We have had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes. 5 We belong to the same family as those who are wealthy, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others.”
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Nehemiah 5:1-5
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Nehemiah 5:1-5
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Nehemiah Helps the Poor
5 Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. 2 Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”
3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields,(A) our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”(B)
4 Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax(C) on our fields and vineyards. 5 Although we are of the same flesh and blood(D) as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.(E) Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”(F)
Exodus 23:5
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Exodus 23:5
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5 If you see that the donkey of someone who hates you has collapsed under its load, do not walk by. Instead, stop and help.
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Exodus 23:5
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Exodus 23:5
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5 If you see the donkey(A) of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
Exodus 11:5
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Exodus 11:5
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5 All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will die.
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Exodus 11:5
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Exodus 11:5
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5 Every firstborn(A) son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill,(B) and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.
Exodus 2:11
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Exodus 2:11
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Moses Escapes to Midian
11 Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.
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Exodus 2:11
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Exodus 2:11
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Moses Flees to Midian
11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people(A) were and watched them at their hard labor.(B) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus 1:11
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Exodus 1:11
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11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
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Exodus 1:11
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Exodus 1:11
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11 So they put slave masters(A) over them to oppress them with forced labor,(B) and they built Pithom and Rameses(C) as store cities(D) for Pharaoh.
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