Verse 8

I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 25:47-49 : 47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family, 48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him, 49 or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives– his family– may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.
• Deut 24:7 : 7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
• Job 29:10 : 10 the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
• Job 32:15 : 15 Job’s Friends Failed to Answer“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.
• Matt 22:12 : 12 And he said to him,‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say.
• Matt 25:15 : 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.
• Matt 25:29 : 29 For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
• Rom 14:15 : 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
• 1 Cor 8:11 : 11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
• Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.
• Exod 21:16 : 16 “Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.