Verse 8

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 25:47-49 : 47 And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family; 48 After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers, 49 Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.
• Deut 24:7 : 7 If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.
• Job 29:10 : 10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
• Job 32:15 : 15 Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.
• Matt 22:12 : 12 And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.
• Matt 25:15 : 15 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey.
• Matt 25:29 : 29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
• Rom 14:15 : 15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
• 1 Cor 8:11 : 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
• Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
• Exod 21:16 : 16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.