Nehemiah 5:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ and now our flesh is the same as that of our brethren, our sons the same as theirs, yet behold we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, nay, some of our daughters are already subjected to bondage, and we have no means to redeem them, for our nobles have got our fields and our vineyards.

¹⁴ And Laban said to him, Thou art of my bones and of my flesh. And when Jacob had been with him a month,

²⁷ Come let us sell him to these Ismaelites and let not our hands be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. So his brothers hearkened to him.

¹ And these are the rules of rectitude which thou shalt set before them. ² If thou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without ransom. ³ If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; but if his wife came with him his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ And if his master hath given him a wife and she hath born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall belong to his master, and he shall go out alone. ⁵ And if the servant shall answer and say, I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go away free, ⁶ his master shall bring him to God's court of Justice and there lead him to the door; to the door post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him for ever. ⁷ When any man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid she shall not go away as those who are in bondage go. ⁸ If she please not her master provided he betrothed her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed; but he is not her master to sell her into another family, because he hath broken covenant with her: ⁹ but if he betroth her for his son, he shall deal by her according to the privilege of daughters. ¹⁰ And if the son take another for himself, he shall not deprive her of food and raiment and her marriage rites. ¹¹ And if he do not these three for her she shall go away ransom free.

³⁹ And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the year of the release he shall work for thee, ⁴¹ and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family; to his paternal possession he shall haste away. ⁴² Because they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold as a slave. ⁴³ Thou shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy God.

¹ When a woman, a widow, of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one who feared the Lord, and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves,

⁷ deal out thy bread to the hungry, and take into thy house the poor who have no shelter; if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and look not scornfully on dependants of thy race;

²⁵ And as he had not wherewithal to pay; his lord ordered him and his wife and all that he had, to be sold and payment to be made.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him? ⁶ But you have treated the poor with disdain. Do not the rich domineer over you? Do they not drag you to tribunals?