Leviticus 25:46
You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
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Leviticus 25:46
You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
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Leviticus 25:39
“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
Leviticus 25:40
As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:41
Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
Leviticus 25:44
“ ‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
Leviticus 25:45
Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.
Leviticus 27:3
your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
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Exodus 21:21
Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
Exodus 21:26
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
Exodus 21:27
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
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Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Leviticus 25:53
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
Ephesians 6:9
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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