Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.”

Genesis 37:27

Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and they agreed.

Leviticus 25:39-43

“If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
to bring the poor and homeless into your house,
to clothe the naked when you see him,
and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?

Genesis 29:14

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Exodus 21:1-11

“These are the ordinances that you must set before them:

Matthew 18:25

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

James 2:5-6

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

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Summary

Nehemiah 5:5

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Our flesh

Genesis 37:27

Isaiah 58:7

James 2:5

We

General references

Amos 8:6

Bible References

Our flesh

Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and they agreed.

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
to bring the poor and homeless into your house,
to clothe the naked when you see him,
and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

We

“These are the ordinances that you must set before them:

“If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

General references

“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

“If you lend money to My people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a moneylender to him; you must not charge him interest.

he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

We can buy the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and even sell the chaff!”