That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
Judges
HistoryAnd Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
Genesis
LawAnd the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Luke
GospelsI beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Genesis
LawAnd Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra
HistoryHe that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Proverbs
WisdomMartha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
John
GospelsAnd he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges
History / SamuelHe cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawThe king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
Joshua
HistoryThe thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Proverbs
WisdomThe thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.