vSee Ex. 20:1-17
Exodus 21:1-11
Laws About Slaves
1“Now these are the arules that you shall set before them. 2 bWhen you buy a Hebrew slave, ▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles; also verses 5, 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 27, 32 (see Preface)
he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If 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. 5But dif the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to eGod, 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. 7“When a man fsells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8If she does not please her master, who has designated her ▼
▼Or so that he has not 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. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or hher marital rights. 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. Deuteronomy 5:27-31
27Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and ispeak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’28“And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. jThey are right in all that they have spoken. 29 kOh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, lthat it might go well with them and with their descendants ▼
▼Or sons
forever! 30Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.” 31But you, stand here by me, and nI will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’ Deuteronomy 6:1-3
The Greatest Commandment
1“Now this is othe commandment—the statutes and the rules ▼▼Or just decrees; also verse 20
—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2that qyou may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and rthat your days may be long. 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, sas the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 33:4
4when tMoses commanded us a law,as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
Nehemiah 9:13-14
13 uYou came down on Mount Sinai vand spoke with them from heaven and gave them wright rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14 xand you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.John 1:17
17For ythe law was given through Moses; zgrace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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