Does A Gracious God Endorse Slavery? - Exodus (Part 37)
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Exodus 21-23 Pt. 1
Exodus 21:1 (ESV)
Now these are the rules that you
shall set before them.
Romans 7:12 (ESV)
So the law is holy, and the
commandment [a synonym for
“judgement”] is holy and
righteous and good.
Exodus 21:2–6 (ESV) When you buy a Hebrew slave, 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 if 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 God, 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.
Matthew 19:7–8 (ESV)
They said to him [Jesus], “Why then
did Moses command one to give a
certificate of divorce and to send her
away?” 8He said to them, “Because of
your hardness of heart Moses
allowed you to divorce your wives,
but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew 19:4–6 (ESV)
He answered, “Have you not read that he
who created them from the beginning
made them male and female, 5and said,
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and
his mother and hold fast to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh’? 6So they
are no longer two but one flesh. What
therefore God has joined together, let not
man separate.”
Exodus 21:2–6 (ESV) When you buy a Hebrew slave, 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 if 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 God, 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.
Exodus 21:16 (ESV)
Whoever steals a man and sells
him, and anyone found in
possession of him, shall be put to
death.
Deuteronomy 24:7 (ESV)
If a man is found stealing one of
his brothers of the people of Israel,
and if he treats him as a slave or
sells him, then that thief shall die.
So you shall purge the evil from
your midst.
Deuteronomy 23:15 (ESV) “You
shall not give up to his master a
slave who has escaped from his
master to you.
Leviticus 25:39–40a (ESV)
If your brother becomes poor
beside you and sells himself to
you, you shall not make him serve
as a slave: 40he shall be with you
as a hired worker and as a
sojourner.
Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants, whom I
brought out of the land of Egypt;
they shall not be sold as slaves.
Exodus 21:7–8 (ESV)
When a man sells 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 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.
Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him
ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Exodus 1:13–14 (ESV)
So they ruthlessly made the people
of Israel work as slaves 14and made
their lives bitter with hard service, in
mortar and brick, and in all kinds of
work in the field. In all their work
they ruthlessly made them work as
slaves.
Deuteronomy 15:12–14(ESV)
If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew
woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six
years, and in the seventh year you shall let him
go free from you. 13And when you let him go
free from you, you shall not let him go emptyhanded. 14You shall furnish him liberally out
of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and
out of your winepress. As the LORD your God
has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Deuteronomy 15:12–14, 18 (ESV)14You shall
furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of
your threshing floor, and out of your winepress.
As the LORD your God has blessed you, you
shall give to him.. . . 18It shall not seem hard to
you when you let him go free from you, for at
half the cost of a hired worker he has served
you six years. So the LORD your God will bless
you in all that you do.
Exodus 21:7–11 (ESV)
When a man sells 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 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 her
marital rights. 11And if he does not do these three
things for her, she shall go out for nothing,
without payment of money.
Exodus 21:20 (ESV)
When a man strikes his slave, male
or female, with a rod and the slave
dies under his hand, he shall be
avenged.
Exodus 21:21 (ESV) But if the slave
survives a day or two, he is not to
be avenged, for the slave is his
money.
Exodus 21:26–27 (ESV)
When a man strikes the eye of his
slave, male or female, and destroys it,
he shall let the slave go free because of
his eye. 27If he knocks out the tooth of
his slave, male or female, he shall let
the slave go free because of his tooth.
Exodus 21:32 (ESV)
If the ox gores a slave, male or
female, the owner shall give to
their master thirty shekels of silver,
and the ox shall be stoned.
Exodus 23:12 (ESV)
Six days you shall do your work,
but on the seventh day you shall
rest; that your ox and your donkey
may have rest, and the son of your
servant woman, and the alien,
may be refreshed.
Exodus 20:1–3 (ESV)
And God spoke all these words,
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saying, “I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery. 3“You shall have no other
gods before me.
Deuteronomy 7:8 (ESV)
but it is because the LORD loves
you and is keeping the oath that he
swore to your fathers, that the LORD
has brought you out with a mighty
hand and redeemed you from the
house of slavery, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Exodus 22:26–27 (ESV)
If ever you take your neighbor’s
cloak in pledge, you shall return it to
him before the sun goes down, 27for
that is his only covering, and it is his
cloak for his body; in what else shall
he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will
hear, for I am compassionate [i.e.,
gracious].
Exodus 34:6 (ESV)
The LORD passed before him [Moses
on Mount Sinai] and proclaimed,
“The LORD, the LORD, a God
merciful and gracious, slow to anger,
and abounding in steadfast love and
faithfulness,
Psalm 103:6–8 (ESV)
The LORD works righteousness and
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justice for all who are oppressed. He
made known his ways to Moses, his
acts to the people of Israel. 8The LORD
is merciful and gracious, slow to anger
and abounding in steadfast love.
Exodus 22:22–24 (ESV)
You shall not mistreat any widow or
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fatherless child. If you do mistreat
them, and they cry out to me, I will
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surely hear their cry, and my wrath
will burn, and I will kill you with the
sword, and your wives shall become
widows and your children fatherless.
Exodus 22:21 (ESV)
You shall not wrong a sojourner
or oppress him, for you were
sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:12 (ESV)
“Six days you shall do your work,
but on the seventh day you shall
rest; that your ox and your donkey
may have rest, and the son of your
servant woman, and the alien, may
be refreshed.
Exodus 22:27 27for that is his only
covering, and it is his cloak for his
body; in what else shall he sleep?
And if he cries to me, I will hear,
for I am compassionate.
Exodus 22:21 (ESV)
“You shall not wrong a sojourner
or oppress him, for you were
sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9 (ESV)
You shall not oppress a sojourner.
You know the heart of a
sojourner, for you were
sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 21:7–11 (ESV)
When a man sells 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 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 her marital
rights. 11And if he does not do these three things
for her, she shall go out for nothing, without
payment of money.
Romans 5:20 (ESV)
Now the law came in to increase
the trespass, but where sin
increased, grace abounded all the
more,
Leviticus 25:55 (ESV)
For it is to me that the people of
Israel are servants. They are my
servants whom I brought out of
the land of Egypt: I am the LORD
your God.
Romans 7:14–16 (ESV)
For we know that the law is
spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold
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under sin. For I do not understand
my own actions. For I do not do
what I want, but I do the very thing
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I hate. Now if I do what I do not
want, I agree with the law, that it is
good.
Romans 7:24–25 (ESV)
Wretched man that I am! Who will
deliver me from this body of
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death? Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ our Lord! So
then, I myself serve the law of God
with my mind, but with my flesh I
serve the law of sin.