13 and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and (A)souls of men.

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13 (A)Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They bartered (B)human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

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Judgment on Israel

Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of (A)Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because (B)they sell the righteous for silver,
And the (C)poor for a pair of sandals.

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By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction [a]does not slumber.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:3 M will not

The Servant, Israel’s Hope

50 Thus says the Lord:

“Where is (A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My (B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities (C)you have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

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And I said to them, “According to our ability we have (A)redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?”

Then they were silenced and found nothing to say.

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“If a man is (A)found [a]kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; (B)and you shall put away the evil from among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:7 Lit. stealing

16 (A)“He who kidnaps a man and (B)sells him, or if he is (C)found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

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10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is [a]contrary to sound doctrine,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:10 opposed

Then (A)Mary took a pound of very costly oil of (B)spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

But one of His disciples, (C)Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for [a]three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and (D)had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; [b]she has kept this for the day of My burial. For (E)the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 About one year’s wages for a worker
  2. John 12:7 NU that she may keep

That we may buy the poor for (A)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”

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Who (A)drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
(B)But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

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17 I have perfumed my bed
With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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And she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones; there never were any spices such as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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25 Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.

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15 besides that from the (A)traveling merchants, from the income of traders, (B)from all the kings of Arabia, and from the governors of the country.

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10 Then she (A)gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great quantity, and precious stones. There never again came such abundance of spices as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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68 “And the Lord (A)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, (B)‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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There were also those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our lands and vineyards. Yet now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we (B)are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”

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