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Deuteronomy 15:12
“ If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.
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1 Samuel 8 7-1 Samuel 8 8
But the LORD told him,“ Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshiping other gods.
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1 Kings 9 22
But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.
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2 Kings 17 13-2 Kings 17 14
Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.”But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe the LORD their God.
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Amos 8:6
We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”
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2 Chronicles 28 10
Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
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Jeremiah 32:30
From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in my sight! They have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands”— this is the LORD’s declaration—
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1 Kings 21 25
Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.
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Exodus 23:10-11
“ Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
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Isaiah 50:1
This is what the LORD says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
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Jeremiah 7:25-26
Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until today, I have sent all my servants the prophets to you time and time again.However, my people wouldn’t listen to me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
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Ezekiel 20:8
“‘ But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized, and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them, exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt.
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Jeremiah 34:8-9
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom to them.As a result, each was to let his male and female Hebrew slaves go free, and no one was to enslave his fellow Judean.
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Nehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years, and your Spirit warned them through your prophets, but they would not listen. Therefore, you handed them over to the surrounding peoples.
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Ezekiel 20:4
“ Will you pass judgment against them, will you pass judgment, son of man? Explain the detestable practices of their ancestors to them.
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2 Chronicles 36 16
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
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Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
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Romans 7:14-17
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave under sin.For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.
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Isaiah 58:6
Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?
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Exodus 21:1-4
“ These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:“ When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.
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Jeremiah 11:8-10
Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”The LORD said to me,“ A conspiracy has been discovered among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.They have returned to the iniquities of their ancestors who refused to obey my words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant I made with their ancestors.
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Zechariah 7:11-12
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the LORD of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore intense anger came from the LORD of Armies.
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Amos 2:6
The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.