Bible Cross References
our flesh
Genesis 37:27
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers agreed.
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When you see the naked to cover him; and not hide yourself from your own flesh?
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to the judgment seats?
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Exodus 21:1-11
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Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:
2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free without payment.
3
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master gives him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
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But if the servant answers to say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,
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then his master shall bring him to God. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him always.
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And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out.
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If she is disagreeable to the eye of her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
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And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.
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If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights.
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And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free, without money.
Leviticus 25:39-43
39
And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and has sold himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.
40
As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41
And then he shall depart from you; he and his children with him; and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers.
42
For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
43
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your God.
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, and you know that your servant feared Jehovah. And the creditor is coming to take my two children to be his slaves.
Matthew 18:25
But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, also his wife and children and everything he had, and that payment be made.