mSee ch. 16:30-33
rSee 1 Kgs. 21:20
Genesis 37:27
27Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and alet not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.Genesis 37:36
36Meanwhile bthe Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, cthe captain of the guard.Genesis 40:15
15For dI was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and ehere also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”Exodus 21:2-6
2 fWhen you buy a Hebrew slave, ▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles; also verses 5, 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 27, 32 (see Preface)
he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5But hif the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to iGod, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. 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 jhe shall be sold for his theft.1 Kings 21:20
20Ahab said to Elijah, k“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because lyou have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.1 Kings 21:25
Ahab’s Repentance
25( mThere was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.2 Kings 17:17
17 nAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
and used pdivination and qomens and rsold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. Romans 7:24
24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from sthis body of death?
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