Bible Against Slaveholders: Slaves Bought and Sold!Republic Office, 1849 - 8 pages |
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Page 62
... assigned as the general rule , a much longer period to the Gentile servant , who had every inducement to protract the term . It should be borne in mind , that adult Jews ordinarily became servants , only as a tem- porary expedient to ...
... assigned as the general rule , a much longer period to the Gentile servant , who had every inducement to protract the term . It should be borne in mind , that adult Jews ordinarily became servants , only as a tem- porary expedient to ...
Page 63
... assign a native Israelite to other employments as a business , was to break up his habits , do violence to cherished predilections , and put him to a kind of labor in which he had no skill , and which he deemed de- grading . In short ...
... assign a native Israelite to other employments as a business , was to break up his habits , do violence to cherished predilections , and put him to a kind of labor in which he had no skill , and which he deemed de- grading . In short ...
Page 64
... assign him to the same grade , nor put him to the same service , with permanent domestics . The remainder of the ... assigned him to a grade of ser- vice filled only by those whose permanent business was serving , would have been to ...
... assign him to the same grade , nor put him to the same service , with permanent domestics . The remainder of the ... assigned him to a grade of ser- vice filled only by those whose permanent business was serving , would have been to ...
Page 65
... assigning the former to the same grade of service , for the same term of time , and under the same political disabilities as the latter . 66 We are now prepared to review at a glance , the condition of the * The disabilities of the ...
... assigning the former to the same grade of service , for the same term of time , and under the same political disabilities as the latter . 66 We are now prepared to review at a glance , the condition of the * The disabilities of the ...
Page 66
... assigned for this is , " he hath been worth a double hired servant unto thee in serving thee six years , " as if it had been said , as you have experienced no loss from the risks of life , and ability to labor , incurred in the purchase ...
... assigned for this is , " he hath been worth a double hired servant unto thee in serving thee six years , " as if it had been said , as you have experienced no loss from the risks of life , and ability to labor , incurred in the purchase ...
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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.