If your fellow Hebrew – whether male or female – is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.

You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.’

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” as its figurehead.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

The first lot went to Asaph’s son Joseph and his relatives and sons – twelve in all, the second to Gedaliah and his relatives and sons – twelve in all,

the second Hilkiah, the third Tebaliah, and the fourth Zechariah. All of Hosah’s sons and relatives numbered thirteen.

His relatives through Eliezer included: Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zikri his son, and Shelomith his son.

After him their relatives worked – Binnui son of Henadad, head of a half-district of Keilah.

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

and his colleagues who were exceptional men – 128. The officer over them was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.

And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’”

“Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously

The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties.”