Exodus 21:7
7“When a man asells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.2 Kings 4:1
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
1Now the wife of one of the bsons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, cbut the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”Nehemiah 5:5
5Now dour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ewe 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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