Exodus 21:2
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2 “When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.(A)
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Exodus 23:10
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Sabbatical Year and Sabbath
10 “Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,(A)
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Deuteronomy 15:12
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12 “If a member of your community, whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold[a] to you and works for you six years, in the seventh year you shall set that person free.(A)
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- 15.12 Or sells himself or herself
1 Samuel 8:7
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7 and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.(A)
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1 Samuel 8:8
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8 Just as they have done to me[a] from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you.
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- 8.8 Gk: Heb lacks to me
2 Kings 17:13
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13 Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”(A)
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2 Kings 17:14
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14 They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.(A)
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