44Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. 45You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property. 46You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
“Foreign slaves among the Jews did not have the same rights as Hebrew slaves sold into servitude because of debt; they could be held as slaves for life, though they had to be treated humanely” (Guzik)
Exodus 21: 16Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession. 20If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21However, if the servant gets up after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the servant is his property.
Exodus 21:16 specifically says that kidnapping a man to sell him was a sin, and not allowed in Israel.
Amos 1: 9 This is what the LORD says: “The people of Tyre have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They broke their treaty of brotherhood with Israel, selling whole villages as slaves to Edom.
10 So I will send down fire on the walls of Tyre, and all its fortresses will be destroyed.”
If the Lord punished man daily for sin, would there be anyone left in the world?
Blessings, David
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