Laban said to him, ‘Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.’ , After Jacob had stayed with him for a month,
Nehemiah 5:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Although our flesh is the same as that of our brethren and our children are as theirs, yet we are forced to sell our children as slaves; some of our daughters have already been thus sold, and we are powerless to redeem them, for others have our lands and vineyards. American Standard Version (1901) Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards. Common English Bible “We are of the same flesh and blood as our kin, and our children are the same as theirs. Yet we are just about to force our sons and daughters into slavery, and some of our daughters are already slaves! There is nothing we can do since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.” Catholic Public Domain Version "And now, as is the flesh of our brothers, so is our flesh; and as are their sons, so also are our sons. Behold, we have subjugated our sons and our daughters into servitude, and some of our daughters are slaves, nor do we have the ability to redeem them, for others possess our fields and our vineyards." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren; and our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters; and some of our daughters are bondwomen already. Neither have we wherewith to redeem them; and our fields and our vineyards other men possess. |
Laban said to him, ‘Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.’ , After Jacob had stayed with him for a month,
Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,’ and his brothers agreed.
One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.
This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood? ,
Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.