Redeeming a Poor Man

47 “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan,

Elisha and the Widow’s Oil

1 Now the wife of one of the ^ssons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

5 Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. ^xYet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

25 And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be ^ysold, with his wife and ^zchildren and all that he had, and payment to be made.