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25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. 26 “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. 27 And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
- Colossians 3
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- Titus 2
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- Colossians 3
Jun 18, 2020 · Gen. 15:13 God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. Gen. 15:14 “But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
Jan 4, 2022 · Wearing a yoke of bondage is a fitting metaphor for this slavery because an animal (or person) bound by a yoke must obey its master. Under the Old Testament covenant, the Jews labored under the law in an attempt to be justified or made right before God (Romans 2:13). But under the New Covenant, God’s grace confirmed by the blood of Jesus ...
Jun 25, 2024 · 3. The problem of translation. “Slaves” and “slavery” are attached to concepts rooted in social arrangements like those in the antebellum South or contemporary human trafficking. That concept of slavery doesn’t align with the social arrangements described in the Hebrew Bible. The terms used to describe two different social ...
1 Timothy 6. New International Version. 6 All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 2 Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better ...
Jul 3, 2004 · (1) Slavery played a very prominent part in the lives of those who lived in Peter’s day. William Barclay provides an excellent description of the slavery of that day: “To understand the real meaning of what Peter is saying we must understand something of the nature of slavery in the time of the early church.
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Exodus 21:26-27 ESV / 7,335 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.
