Genesis 31:15

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Does he not regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even spent what was paid for us.

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  • Gen 30:26 : 26 ‘Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, so that I may go. You know how hard I have worked for you.’
  • Gen 29:15-20 : 15 Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?' 16 Now Laban had two daughters: The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had tender eyes, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. 18 Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.' 19 Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.' 20 So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
  • Gen 29:27-30 : 27 'Complete this week’s celebration with Leah, and we will give you Rachel also, in return for another seven years of work.' 28 Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant. 30 Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
  • Exod 21:7-9 : 7 If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He does not have the right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or marital rights. 11 If he does not provide these three things for her, she is to go free, without any payment.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them, 'We have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations, as much as we were able. Now, you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!' They stayed silent, unable to say a word.

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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 31:16
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    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

  • Gen 43:20-22
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    20They said, "Please, my lord, we came down here before to buy food.

    21But when we reached our lodging place and opened our sacks, there was each man's silver in the mouth of his sack, the exact weight. So we have brought it back with us.

    22We have also brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don't know who put our silver in our sacks."

  • Lam 5:2-4
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    2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

    4We must pay for the water we drink; even our wood comes at a price.

  • Gen 44:7-8
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    7But they replied to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

    8"Look, we even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

  • Gen 31:1
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    1Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said, 'We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and our livestock has been given to you. There is nothing left for our lord but our bodies and our land.'

    19'Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.'

  • Gen 37:27-28
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    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.

    28When the Midianite merchants passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

  • Gen 34:31
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    31But they replied, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

  • Neh 5:5
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    5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

  • Gen 42:30
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    30They said, 'The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.'

  • Gen 42:28
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    28He said to his brothers, 'My money has been returned! Look, it is here in my sack.' Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another, saying, 'What is this that God has done to us?'

  • Ps 44:11-12
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    11You make us retreat before the enemy, and those who hate us have plundered us for themselves.

    12You delivered us like sheep to be eaten and have scattered us among the nations.

  • Gen 31:9
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    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

  • Gen 29:15
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    15Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

  • Gen 25:31
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    31Jacob replied, 'First, sell me your birthright.'

  • Gen 42:32
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    32"We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan."'

  • Gen 43:7
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    7They replied, “The man kept asking us about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How could we have known he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

  • Lev 25:47
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    47If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11'See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance.'

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  • Num 20:15
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    15Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

  • Gen 31:30
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    30Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

  • Gen 31:7
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    7Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

  • Gen 43:18
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    18But the men were afraid when they were taken to Joseph's house. They said, "We were brought here because of the silver that was returned to our sacks the first time. He plans to trap us, attack us, take us as slaves, and seize our donkeys."

  • Esth 7:4
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    4For my people and I have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as slaves, I would have remained silent, because no harm to the king would justify disturbing him in this way."

  • Gen 31:32
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    32But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

  • Gen 31:37
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    37You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

  • Gen 42:35-36
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    35As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bundle of silver. When they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were frightened.

    36Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

  • Gen 31:26
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    26Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.

  • Gen 42:21
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    21They said to one another, 'Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.'