Exodus 21:2
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2 “If you buy (A)a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you.
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Leviticus 25:39
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39 ‘Now (A)if a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.
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2 Kings 4:1
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The Widow’s Oil
4 Now a woman of the wives of (A)the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and (B)the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 And now (A)our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, (B)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and [a]we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
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- Nehemiah 5:5 Lit there is no power in our hands
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