13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:13 Or and slaves, and human lives

13 (A)Javan, (B)Tubal, and (C)Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

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10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,[a] liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to (A)sound[b] doctrine,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:10 That is, those who take someone captive in order to sell him into slavery
  2. 1 Timothy 1:10 Or healthy

Judgment on Israel

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—

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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.

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and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, (A)have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

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And (A)in their greed they will exploit you (B)with false words. (C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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(A)Mary therefore took a pound[a] of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii[b] and (B)given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and (C)having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it[c] for the day of my burial. For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:3 Greek litra; a litra (or Roman pound) was equal to about 11 1/2 ounces or 327 grams
  2. John 12:5 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer
  3. John 12:7 Or Leave her alone; she intended to keep it

that we may buy the poor for (A)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

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(A)who drink wine in bowls
    and (B)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

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17 I have perfumed my bed with (A)myrrh,
    aloes, and (B)cinnamon.

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And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for (A)the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now (B)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (C)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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Then she gave the king 120 talents[a] of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:9 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

25 Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh,[a] spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:25 Or armor

15 besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.

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10 (A)Then she gave the king 120 talents[a] of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:10 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

68 And the Lord (A)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that (B)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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(A)“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he (B)treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. (C)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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16 (A)“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found (B)in possession of him, shall be put to death.

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