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Generation after generation, every male child shall be circumcised when it is eight days old. And this law shall be binding on your slaves, both those born in your households, and those you have bought, though these be of alien breed. (Genesis 17, 12)
And Abraham sent for his son Ismael, and for all the slaves born in his house and those, too, whom he had bought, every male child that belonged to any of his household, and on that very day he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins, in obedience to the Lord’s bidding. (Genesis 17, 23)
and the men of his household, slaves born in the house and aliens that were his by purchase, all alike. (Genesis 17, 27)
If the cup that is missing should be found in possession of any of us, let him pay for it with his life; and we, too, will be slaves in our lord’s service. (Genesis 44, 9)
My lord, said Juda, what answer can we make? What plea can we offer in our defence? We are guilty men, and God would not let it pass unnoticed; and now all of us, not only he in whose possession the cup was found, will be thy slaves. (Genesis 44, 16)
And now, when the news of their escape reached the Egyptian court, Pharao and his servants changed their minds about the Israelites; What madness was this, they said, to let our slaves go free! (Exodus 14, 5)
thou shalt leave them to be sustenance, as need arises, for thyself, thy slaves and slave-women, thy hired labourers, and the aliens in thy household; (Leviticus 25, 6)
And if thy brother-Israelite is brought by poverty to sell his own liberty to thee, do not submit him to bondage with thy slaves; (Leviticus 25, 39)
The Israelites know no master but me, their rescuer from Egypt; they must not be bought and sold like slaves; (Leviticus 25, 42)
Your men-slaves and women-slaves must come from the nations round about you; (Leviticus 25, 44)
this shall be thy answer: We dwelt in Egypt once, as Pharao’s slaves, and the Lord our God rescued us from Egypt by his constraining power, (Deuteronomy 6, 21)
When any of thy own race, Hebrew men and women, are sold to thee as slaves and have worked for thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt set them at liberty. (Deuteronomy 15, 12)
