Genesis 37:27
Instead, why don't we sell him to these Ishmaelites? We don't have to kill him. After all he's our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.
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Genesis 29:14Laban told him, “No question about it—you're my own flesh and blood!” Jacob stayed with Laban for a month.
Genesis 42:21“Clearly we're being punished for what we did to our brother,” they said to each other. “We watched him in agony pleading with us for mercy, but we refused to listen to him. That's why we're in all this trouble.”
Exodus 21:21However, if after a day or two the slave gets better, the owner won't be punished because the slave is their property.
2 Samuel 11:14In the morning David wrote Joab a letter, and gave it to Uriah to take to him.
Nehemiah 5:8There I told them, “We have done as much as we can to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers as slaves! Are you expecting to sell them back to us?” They kept quiet because they couldn't think of anything to say.
Matthew 26:15and asked them, “How much will you pay me for betraying Jesus to you?” They paid him thirty silver coins.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:24-31
23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; 24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if… Read the whole commentary →