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Exodus 21:1-11
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Exodus 21:1-11
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Exodus 21:1–11
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General Charles G. Gordon was an outstanding man of God. When the English government wanted to reward him for his distinguished service in China, he declined all money and titles. Finally, after much arguing, he accepted a gold medal inscribed with his name and a record of his ac … More
The law of Moses had three major divisions:
We find in these verses a series of civil statutes which God gave unto Israel for the purpose of regulating their social and civil life. Specifically it pertained to the servant or slave. Slaves were not forbidden to the Israelites. Within the economic structure of that day a slave of a good master was often better off than if he was free. A person could sell himself and his wife into slavery if he was in poverty or deep debt (Deut. 15:12). However, this servitude was to be limited to 6 years (v. 2).
Under rare circumstances of poverty a man might be forced to sell his daughter into a work or marriage relationship. Her rights were strictly spelled out here (vv 7-11). She could not be sold to foreigners (v. 8); she had to be treated like a daughter (v. 9); and she had to be freed if any of the conditions were not kept.
Application
In Philippians I read of how Christ “made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant.” May I also experience this same sense of servitude in my life.
Exodus 21:1-11 (English Standard Version)
"Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money."
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