Genesis 37:26-28
26Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it aif we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and blet not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him. 28Then cMidianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and dsold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt. Deuteronomy 28:68
68And the Lord fwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that gyou 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.”Joshua 9:23
23Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, hcutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”Nehemiah 5:5
5Now iour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet jwe 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.”Joel 3:6
6You have sold kthe people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.Amos 2:6
Judgment on Israel
6Thus says the Lord:l“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because mthey sell the righteous for nsilver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
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