(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and they take a pledge against the poor.)

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Now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (B)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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Elisha and the Widow's Oil

Now the wife of one of the (A)sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, (B)but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

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