Bible Against Slaveholders: Slaves Bought and Sold!Republic Office, 1849 - 8 pages |
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... tion into Scripture usage , with painful collating of passages , to find the meaning of terms , let every man interpret the oldest book in the world by the usages of his own time and place , and the work is done . And then instead of ...
... tion into Scripture usage , with painful collating of passages , to find the meaning of terms , let every man interpret the oldest book in the world by the usages of his own time and place , and the work is done . And then instead of ...
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... tion of buying servants is detailed - the preliminaries , the process , the mutual acquiescence , and the permanent relation resulting there- from . In all other instances , the mere fact is stated without particu- lars . In this case ...
... tion of buying servants is detailed - the preliminaries , the process , the mutual acquiescence , and the permanent relation resulting there- from . In all other instances , the mere fact is stated without particu- lars . In this case ...
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... tion . " It may be said that this command referred only to the servants of heathen masters in the surrounding nations . We answer , the terms of the command are unlimited . But the objection , if valid , would merely shift the pressure ...
... tion . " It may be said that this command referred only to the servants of heathen masters in the surrounding nations . We answer , the terms of the command are unlimited . But the objection , if valid , would merely shift the pressure ...
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... tion was a constant counteraction of will . Besides the same command which protected the servant from the power of his foreign master , protected him equally from the power of an Israelite . It was not , " Thou shalt not deliver him ...
... tion was a constant counteraction of will . Besides the same command which protected the servant from the power of his foreign master , protected him equally from the power of an Israelite . It was not , " Thou shalt not deliver him ...
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... tion " nor 66 compact , " to send back Abrahams's fugitives , nor a truck- ling police to pounce upon them , nor gentleman - kidnappers , suing for his patronage , volunteering to howl on their track , boasting their blood - hound scent ...
... tion " nor 66 compact , " to send back Abrahams's fugitives , nor a truck- ling police to pounce upon them , nor gentleman - kidnappers , suing for his patronage , volunteering to howl on their track , boasting their blood - hound scent ...
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Abraham Amelek Amelekites annihilate articles of property authorized becoming servants Bible bought servants Canaan Canaanites cattle chattel children of Israel Chron cities command condition crime destroy Deut distinction douloi Egypt Egyptians extermination father forever Gibeonites gives precepts God's hath heathen Hebrew heir hired servants honor inference inhabitants inheritance Israel in battle Israelites Israelitish servant Jephunneh Jewish Josh jubilee kill Kings labor land land of Goshen Lord Maimonides master meaning Mephibosheth modern slavery Mosaic law Mosaic system Moses nations neighbor Old Testament Onesimus oppression patriarchal permanent servants persons possession proclaim liberty procure punished put to death raoh relation rendered robbed Roman slavery Saul sell slaveholders slaves sold stealeth stealing surely be put Targum Testament thing Thou shalt tion unto thee vants verse wages Whisky Rebellion wives xxii xxiv Zuph
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Page 19 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 27 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 20 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 10 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 1 - Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 22 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 19 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.