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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Egypt 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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