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Nehemiah 5:8

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!”

But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

Nehemiah 5:8 BSB

Nehemiah 5:8 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Leviticus 25:47–49 (4 votes) and Exodus 21:16 (2 votes). 37 other verses point back to it. It links with 24 other books, from Genesis 17 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Nehemiah 5:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Leviticus 25:47–494 votes

    If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan, he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him: …

  2. Exodus 21:162 votes

    Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

  3. Deuteronomy 24:72 votes

    If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

  4. Job 29:102 votes

    The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

  5. Job 32:152 votes

    Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

  6. Matthew 22:122 votes

    ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.

  7. Matthew 25:152 votes

    To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent—each according to his own ability. And he went on his journey.

  8. Matthew 25:292 votes

    For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

  9. Romans 3:192 votes

    Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

  10. Romans 14:152 votes

    If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

  11. 1 Corinthians 8:112 votes
  12. 2 Corinthians 8:122 votes
  13. Galatians 6:101 vote

Which verses point to Nehemiah 5:8?

The 10 strongest of 37.