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Just as the eyes of slaves are on their masters' hand, or the eyes of a slave-girl on the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on Yahweh our God, for him to take pity on us. (Psalms 123, 2)
disguised their circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant, submitting to gentile rule as willing slaves of impiety. (1 Maccabees 1, 15)
The local merchants, hearing the news of this, arrived at the camp, bringing with them a large amount of gold and silver, and fetters as well, proposing to buy the Israelites as slaves; they were accompanied by a company from Idumaea and the Philistine country. (1 Maccabees 3, 41)
I bought slaves, male and female, had home-born slaves as well; herds and flocks I had too, more than anyone in Jerusalem before me. (Ecclesiastes 2, 7)
I see slaves riding on horses and princes on foot like slaves. (Ecclesiastes 10, 7)
Peoples will take them and escort them home, and the House of Israel will take them as slaves, men and women on Yahweh's soil. They will enslave those who enslaved them and will master their oppressors. (Isaiah 14, 2)
The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to issue a proclamation freeing their slaves: (Jeremiah 34, 8)
each man was to free his Hebrew slaves, men and women, no one was any longer to keep a brother Judaean in slavery. (Jeremiah 34, 9)
All the chief men and all the people who had entered into the covenant had agreed that everyone should free his slaves, men or women, and no longer keep them as slaves: they had agreed on this and set them free. (Jeremiah 34, 10)
Afterwards, however, they changed their minds, recovered the slaves, men and women, whom they had set free, and reduced them to slavery again. (Jeremiah 34, 11)
And then you changed your minds and, profaning my name, each of you has recovered his slaves, men and women, whom you had sent away free to live their own lives, and has forced them to become your slaves again." (Jeremiah 34, 16)
Slaves rule us; there is no one to rescue us from their clutches. (Lamentations 5, 8)