Genesis 27:28
28May God give you of athe dew of heavenand of the fatness of the earth
and bplenty of grain and wine.
Genesis 27:36
36Esau said, c“Is he not rightly named Jacob? ▼▼ Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats
For he has cheated me these two times. eHe took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” Exodus 12:44
44but every slave ▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)
that is gbought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. Exodus 22:3
3but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then hhe shall be sold for his theft.Leviticus 25:39-41
39 i“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: 40he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41 jThen he shall go out from you, khe and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return lto the possession of his fathers.Leviticus 25:44
44As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.2 Kings 4:1
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil
1Now the wife of one of the msons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, nbut the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”Nehemiah 5:1-5
Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
1Now there arose oa great outcry of the people and of their wives pagainst their Jewish brothers. 2For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for qthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5Now rour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet swe 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.”Nehemiah 5:8
8and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, thave bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.
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