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Leviticus 25:40
As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.

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Leviticus 25:39
“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Matthew 18:25
But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

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Exodus 21:2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Exodus 21:3
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Exodus 21:5
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

Exodus 21:6
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Deuteronomy 15:12
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Deuteronomy 15:17
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

Jeremiah 34:8
The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

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Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

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