Deuteronomy 24:7
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If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land where Israel had been enslaved before the Exodus, an experience that shaped its covenant laws. Deuteronomy 24:7 invokes that history to underscore the gravity of kidnapping and selling a fellow Israelite into slavery.
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Deuteronomy 24:7 mentions Egypt.
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