Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts


Thematic Bible




The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.
Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersDebtorsPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The PoorTaking Other PeopleMotherhoodPurgatorybaby

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. Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineDebtorsOther WivesSettling AccountsUnable To Do Other ThingsDebt

Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans. If you have no money to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you.

If someone puts up security for a stranger,
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSafetySecurityDebtLosing A FriendLosing FriendsProtecting Your FamilyProtection From Danger

Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison. Verse ConceptsAgreementDiscorddisagreementsLawyersJudgesOfficersAttorneyLawsuitsLitigationQuarrelsDebtorsAgreeingHanding Over PeopleImprisonmentsCourt SessionsPeople Accusing PeopleMisunderstandingsMaking Peace With EnemiesReconciliationConflictResolving Conflictjail

And his master got angry and handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed. Verse ConceptsTortureJudicial PunishmentSettling AccountsDebtAnger And Forgiveness

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. Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineDebtorsOther WivesSettling AccountsUnable To Do Other ThingsDebt

“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything. Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingPunishment, Nature OfSlavery, In OtYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsPeople Freeing SlavesThe Law On SlaveryFree Of ChargeslaveryFreedomservanthood

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. Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineDebtorsOther WivesSettling AccountsUnable To Do Other ThingsDebt

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