Chattel slavery? Do you have any scriptures for that? I've not found those as yet. I know Exodus 21 and verse 16 in particular forbids this under penalty of death.I understand that indentured servitude was practiced but so was slavery. These were two different things and both were regulated by the Law of Moses.
Unlike the indentured servant, slaves were regarded as property and could be bought, sold and inherited as part of an estate.Chattel slavery? Do you have any scriptures for that? I've not found those as yet. I know Exodus 21 and verse 16 in particular forbids this under penalty of death.
Just for the information of other readers, (Chattel) Slavery=A civil relationship in which one person has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another.
However, that wasn't forced slavery. (chattel slavery)Unlike the indentured servant, slaves were regarded as property and could be bought, sold and inherited as part of an estate.
Leviticus 25:44-46, “As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession. You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves.”
There was also a great deal of difference in how an indentured servant was to be treated as apposed to a slave.
Of course it was. Slaves acquired from other nations either by purchase or conquest were permanent property. They were not protected by the sabbath of release nor the Jubilee. They could be severely beaten for any offense or displeasure but they could not be killed. It was a violation of the law to murder anyone, even a slave. The master who beat a slave to death was subject to the judgment of the court.
All bond-servants were required to be released at the end of six years of service and could not be bought or sold. They were to be treated as hired-servants and not as slaves. It was forbidden for a bond-servant to be treated with severity.
“If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers. For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.” Leviticus 25:39-46.
It was even forbidden for a master to strike a bond-servant so that he lost a tooth or an eye. If you struck an indentured servant and he lost a tooth or an eye as a result, he was to be compensated by releasing him from his service as a free man. No such law applied to the treatment of slaves.
Of course it was. Slaves acquired from other nations either by purchase or conquest were permanent property. They were not protected by the sabbath of release nor the Jubilee. They could be severely beaten for any offense or displeasure but they could not be killed. It was a violation of the law to murder anyone, even a slave. The master who beat a slave to death was subject to the judgment of the court.
All bond-servants were required to be released at the end of six years of service and could not be bought or sold. They were to be treated as hired-servants and not as slaves. It was forbidden for a bond-servant to be treated with severity.
“If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers. For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.” Leviticus 25:39-46.
It was even forbidden for a master to strike a bond-servant so that he lost a tooth or an eye. If you struck an indentured servant and he lost a tooth or an eye as a result, he was to be compensated by releasing him from his service as a free man. No such law applied to the treatment of slaves.
Chattel slavery is the oppression of people who are treated as personal property. It is the forced labor of people who are bought and sold as commodities. Israel was instructed in Deuteronomy 20:11-18 that whenever they went to was against a nation outside the boundries of their lands, they were to offer it terms of peace. If a peace was agreed upon then... "all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby. Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes." NAS.Of course it was not chattel slavery.
You appear quite adamant so I will leave you to it.
I have done. If you'd read the articles linked I think it would assist greatly your understanding as Deuteronomy 20 is part of those writings.All of these passages you listed do have to do with indentured servitude and yes, the kidnapping and enslavement of a fellow Hebrew was punishable by death. But you still must deal with the passages I provided for the enslavement of those from other nations by Israel such as Deut. 20 ?
I read through much of that link and his treatment of many of the texts is completely unwarranted and completely lacking of scholarship. He completely ignores the language of the test. He is failing to differentiate between the indentured servant and the slave. He attempts to lump all of these passages into one theme. If you think chattel slavery was forbidden under the Law of Moses then could I please ask you to explain to me the context of Deut 20:10-18? Could you also please explain why the Law of Moses provides two separate sets of regulation regarding the treatment of each?I have done. If you'd read the articles linked I think it would assist greatly your understanding as Deuteronomy 20 is part of those writings.
After that if you insist chattel slavery as defined was lawful for Hebrews, that will be your burden to carry when you meet God. For my part I don't know why anyone would insist the Hebrews owned chattel slaves when God's word is crystal clear to the contrary.
In other words, Israel was not to treat their indentured servants in the same way they would treat their slaves. They were to treat them as brethren.Looking at the passage in Levitocus several times it say you shall not rule over them with rigour. Its not saying or meaning with bondservants that because you are not ruling over your brethren with rigour that means you can rule over you foreign bondservants with rigour. Then it goes on to say these people can be redeemed.
Verse 53
The passages are long but Im not really getting that its ok to treat bondservants harshly from Leviticus.