Jeremiah 34:8 References
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had amade a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to bproclaim release to them:
b Exodus 21:2, Leviticus 25:10, Leviticus 25:39-46, Nehemiah 5:1-13, Isaiah 58:6, Jeremiah 34:14, Jeremiah 34:17
Exodus 21
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"If you buy aa Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.
Leviticus 25
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'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and aproclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and beach of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 25
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'aIf a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.
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'He shall be with you as a hired man, as aif he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
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'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.
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'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.
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'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have--you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.
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'Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.
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'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. aBut in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.
Nehemiah 5
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For there were those who said, "We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us aget grain that we may eat and live."
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There were others who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses that we might get grain because of the famine."
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Also there were those who said, "We have borrowed money afor the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.
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"Now aour flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, bwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others."
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I consulted with myself and contended with the nobles and the rulers and said to them, "aYou are exacting usury, each from his brother!" Therefore, I held a great assembly against them.
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I said to them, "We according to our ability ahave redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?" Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.
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Again I said, "The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of athe reproach of the nations, our enemies?
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"And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.
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"Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them."
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Then they said, "We awill give it back and bwill require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say." So I called the priests and ctook an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.
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I aalso shook out the front of my garment and said, "Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not fulfill this promise; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied." And ball the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised the Lord. Then the people did according to this promise.
Isaiah 58
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"Is this not the fast which I choose, To aloosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to blet the oppressed go free And cbreak every yoke?
Jeremiah 34
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"aAt the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers bdid not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.
Jeremiah 34
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"Therefore thus says the Lord, 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am aproclaiming a release to you,' declares the Lord, 'to the bsword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a cterror to all the kingdoms of the earth.