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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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Genesis 29:14
Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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Exodus 21:8
If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Exodus 21:9
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

Exodus 21:10
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

Exodus 21:11
If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

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Exodus 21:16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 22:3
If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25:44
“ ‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

Leviticus 25:48
after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

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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Deuteronomy 28:68
Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

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Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Malachi 2:10
Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

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Ezekiel 18:13
has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

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Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

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