Genesis 4:10
10And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood ais crying to me from the ground.Exodus 2:23-24
God Hears Israel’s Groaning
23 bDuring those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel cgroaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. dTheir cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24And eGod heard their groaning, and God fremembered his covenant with gAbraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Exodus 3:7
7Then the Lord said, h“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their itaskmasters. I know their sufferings,Exodus 22:21-24
21 j“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22 kYou shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23If you do mistreat them, and they lcry out to me, I will surely mhear their cry, 24and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and nyour wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.Exodus 22:27
27for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he ocries to me, I will hear, for I am pcompassionate.Deuteronomy 15:9
9Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your qeye look grudgingly ▼▼Or be evil; also verse 10
on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he scry to the Lord against you, and tyou be guilty of sin. Nehemiah 5:1-5
Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
1Now there arose ua great outcry of the people and of their wives vagainst 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 wthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5Now xour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ywe 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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