Nehemiah 5:5 Cross References - Coverdale

⁵ Now are oure brethrens bodies as oure awne bodies, and their children as oure children: els shulde we subdue oure sonnes and doughters vnto bondage, and some of oure doughters are subdued allready, and no strength is there in oure handes, and other men shal haue oure londes and vynyardes.

¹⁴ The sayde Laban vnto him: Wel, thou art my bone and my flesh. Abyde with me a moneth longe.

²⁷ Come, let vs sell him vnto the Ismaelites, that oure handes be not defyled vpon him, for he is oure brother, oure flesh and bloude. And they herkened vnto him.

¹ These are the lawes, that thou shalt laye before them. ² Yf thou bye a seruaunt that is an Hebrue, he shal serue the sixe yeares, in the seuenth yeare shall he go out fre and lowse. ³ Yf he came alone, then shal he go out alone also: but yf he came maried, then shall his wife go out with him. ⁴ Yf his master haue geue him a wife, & she haue borne him sonnes or doughters, the shal the wife and ye children be the masters, but he shall go out alone. ⁵ Neuertheles yf the seruaunt saye: I loue my master, and my wife and children, I wil not go out fre: ⁶ then let his master brynge him before the Goddes, and holde him to the dore or post, and bore him thorow the eare with a botkin, and let him be his seruaunt for euer. ⁷ Yf a man sell his doughter to be an handmayde, then shal she not go out as the menseruauntes. ⁸ But yf she please not hir master, and he haue not maried her, then shal he let her go fre: but to sell her vnto a strauge people he hath no auctorite, for so moch as he hath despysed her. ⁹ Yf he promyse her vnto his sonne, then shal he do vnto her after the lawe of doughters. ¹⁰ But yf he geue him another wife, then shall he mynishe nothinge of hir foode, rayment, and dewtye of mariage. ¹¹ Yf he do not these thre, then shal she go out fre, and paye nothinge.

³⁹ Whan thy brother waxeth poore besyde the, and selleth himself vnto the, thou shalt not holde him as a bode ma: ⁴⁰ but as an hyred seruaunte and as a soiourner shall he be wt the, and serue the vntyll ye yeare of Iubilye. ⁴¹ Then shal he departe lowse from the, & his childre with him, & shal returne to his awne kinred, and to his fathers possession: ⁴² for they are my seruauntes, whom I brought out of the londe of Egipte. Therfore shal they not be solde like bondmen. ⁴³ And thou shalt not raigne ouer them with crueltie, but shalt feare thy God.

¹ And there cried a woman amoge the wyues of the prophetes children vnto Eliseus, and sayde: Thy seruaunt my hu?bade is deed, and thou knowest that thy seruaunt feared the LORDE. Now commeth the man that he was detter vnto, and wyll take awaye both my children to be bonde seruauntes.

⁷ It pleaseth not me, till thou deale thy bred to the hongrie, & brynge the poore fatherlesse home in to thy house, when thou seist the naked that thou couer him, and hyde not thy face fro thine owne flesh.

²⁵ Now wha he had nothinge to paye his lorde comaunded him to be solde, & his wife & his childre, & all yt he had, & payment to be made.

⁵ Harken my deare beloued brethre. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, which are ryche in faith, and heyres of the kyngdom which he promysed to the that loue him? ⁶ But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges?