7 “If a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not go free the same way that a slave man does.

39 “‘If your brother who lives nearby becomes poor and he has to sell himself to you,+ you must not force him to do slave labor.+

4 Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets+ cried out to E·liʹsha, saying: “Your servant my husband is dead, and you well know that your servant had always feared Jehovah.+ Now a creditor has come to take both of my children as his slaves.”

8 And I said to them: “To the extent possible, we have bought back our own Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; but will you now sell your own brothers,+ and are they to be sold back to us?” At this they became speechless, and they could find nothing to say.