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  2. Behar - Wikipedia

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    [60] Similarly, a Midrash concluded that these words of Leviticus 25:14 taught that anyone who wrongs a neighbor with words will be punished according to Scripture. [61] In a Baraita, the Rabbis interpreted the words "you shall not wrong one another" in Leviticus 25:17 to prohibit verbal wrongs, as Leviticus 25:14 had already addressed monetary ...

  3. The Bible and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, pro-slavery Europeans defined the "non-Israelites" of Leviticus 25:44-46 as non-Christians and later as non-white people. Watts suggested that they used the Bible's two-tier model to justify enslaving Africans and Native Americans while limiting white forced laborers to indentured servants and prisoners. [114]

  4. Bechukotai - Wikipedia

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    While Leviticus 12:6–8 required a new mother to bring a burnt-offering and a sin-offering, Leviticus 26:9 Deuteronomy 28:11 and Psalm 127:3–5 make clear that having children is a blessing from God, Genesis 15:2 and 1 Samuel 1:5–11 characterize childlessness as a misfortune, and Leviticus 20:20 and Deuteronomy 28:18 threaten childlessness ...

  5. Holiness code - Wikipedia

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    Leviticus 20 also presents the list in a more verbose manner. Furthermore, Leviticus 22:11–21 parallels Leviticus 17, and there are, according to textual criticism, passages at Leviticus 18:26, 19:37, 22:31–33, 24:22, and 25:55, which have the appearance of once standing at the end of independent laws or collections of laws as colophons ...

  6. Christian views on slavery - Wikipedia

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    Theodore of Mopsuestia In Commentary on Philemon 2.264.10–14, he comments that some Christian ecclesiastics of his day 'would write with great authority that a slave who joined us in the faith and hastened to the true religion of his own free will should be freed from slavery. For there are many such people today, who want to be seen to be ...

  7. Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll - Wikipedia

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    The 11QpaleoLev scroll is unique in that where the MT requires reading לו in Leviticus 25:30 as the ḳeri (קרי), although the text is written לא as the actual ketiv (כתיב) in the MT, the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll shows the original reading and is written plainly as לו, without the necessity of changing its reading. [37]

  8. Priestly Code - Wikipedia

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    The order for a trumpet sounding on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 25:9b) Rules concerning redeeming property (Leviticus 25:23 and 25:26-34) Order to only keep heathens as slaves (Leviticus 25:40, 25:42, 25:44-46) Rules concerning redeeming people (Leviticus 25:48-52, and 25:54) Law concerning the commutation of vows (Leviticus 27)

  9. Book of Leviticus - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Leviticus (/ l ɪ ˈ v ɪ t ɪ k ə s /, from Ancient Greek: Λευιτικόν, Leuïtikón; Biblical Hebrew: וַיִּקְרָא ‎, Wayyīqrāʾ, 'And He called'; Latin: Liber Leviticus) is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses. [1]