Fondare 145 Risultati per: Release of slaves

• Why should we and our land perish before your very eyes? Take us and our land in exchange for food, and we will become Pharaoh's slaves and our land his property; only give us seed, that we may survive and not perish, and that our land may not turn into a waste." (Genesis 47, 19)

• "You have saved our lives!" they answered. "We are grateful to my lord that we can be Pharaoh's slaves." (Genesis 47, 25)

• Then his brothers proceeded to fling themselves down before him and said, "Let us be your slaves!" (Genesis 50, 18)

• making life bitter for them with hard work in mortar and brick and all kinds of field work--the whole cruel fate of slaves. (Exodus 1, 14)

• A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. Still the Israelites groaned and cried out because of their slavery. As their cry for release went up to God, (Exodus 2, 23)

• And now that I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are treating as slaves, I am mindful of my covenant. (Exodus 6, 5)

• Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said, 'Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians'? Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians than to die in the desert." (Exodus 14, 12)

• "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go free as male slaves do. (Exodus 21, 7)

• While the land has its sabbath, all its produce will be food equally for you yourself and for your male and female slaves, for your hired help and the tenants who live with you, (Leviticus 24, 6)

• Since those whom I brought out of the land of Egypt are servants of mine, they shall not be sold as slaves to any man. (Leviticus 24, 42)

• "Slaves, male and female, you may indeed possess, provided you buy them from among the neighboring nations. (Leviticus 24, 44)

• You may also buy them from among the aliens who reside with you and from their children who are born and reared in your land. Such slaves you may own as chattels, (Leviticus 24, 45)