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The Bible states that one should not regret freeing the Slave, for slaves were worth Twice the Hired hand to The Master; [80] Nachmanides enumerates this as a command rather than merely as a piece of advice. [27] According to Jeremiah 34:8–24, Jeremiah also demanded that King Zedekiah manumit (free) all Israelite slaves (Jeremiah 34:9).
The Bible uses the Hebrew term eved and Greek doulos (δοῦλος) to refer to slaves. Eved has a much wider meaning than the English term slave, and in many circumstances it is more accurately translated into English as servant or hired worker. [6]
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. In the Gospel of Luke 22:24–27, Jesus expounds on the import of serving:
The Bible uses the Hebrew term eved (עֶבֶד) to refer to slavery; however, eved has a much wider meaning than the English term slavery, and in several circumstances it is more accurately translated into English as servant. [13] It was seen as legitimate to enslave captives obtained through warfare, [14] but not through kidnapping.
The Holman Christian Standard Bible translated the phrase as "No one can be a slave of two masters". [2] David Hill notes that while labourers would frequently have more than one employer, it was impossible for a slave to have two masters and the author of Matthew may have chosen the slave metaphor as the clearer one. [ 3 ]
Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for slavery or involuntary servitude, allowing it as punishment for a crime written into ...
The Parable of the Master and Servant is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found only in Luke's Gospel (Luke 17:7–10). The parable teaches that when somebody "has done what God expects, he or she is only doing his or her duty."
According to the Hebrew Bible, non-Hebrew slaves were drawn primarily from the neighboring nations . [ 21 ] The laws governing non-Hebrew slaves were more harsh than those governing Hebrew slaves: non-Hebrew slaves could be owned permanently, and bequeathed to the owner's children, [ 22 ] whereas Hebrew slaves were treated as servants, and were ...