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Exodus 21:2-11, 26-27

In the Bible, if a woman is sold into slavery, the presumption was that she was to become someone's concubine--whether the master's, his son's, or another servant's--but that wasn't a given. Sometimes she would be a temporary laborer or a woman's personal servant (aka "handmaid").

A concubine was a wife who had been purchased as a slave. She had rights and was legally recognized as a man's wife, but that didn't nullify her status as his slave (which probably had inheritance implications for her firstborn son). As a bare minimum, a man owes three things to a concubine: food, clothing, and procreation. A concubine is allowed an unquestioned divorce if her husband doesn't meet his obligations to her.

If a man buys her to be a wife and then changes his mind, he must allow her to be redeemed by her family. V8 says he can't sell her to a foreigner, but this means anyone outside of her family, not just people from another nation. If a man buys a slave girl to marry his son, he must treat her as his own daughter. He can't treat her as a slave.

In God's Law, even slaves must be treated humanely. Biblical slavery was nothing like the slavery perpetrated in many other cultures even today.

This coming week, February 19-25 (28 Shevat-4 Adar), the Bible reading plan covers the portion Terumah (Offerings).

19 Feb Exodus 25:1-16 1 Chronicles 11:22-12:22 Luke 22:35-54 Psalm 63:1-11
20 Feb Exodus 25:17-30 1 Chronicles 12:23-14:7 Luke 22:55-71 Psalm 64:1-10
21 Feb Exodus 25:31-26:14 1 Chronicles 14:8-15:29 Luke 23:1-25 Psalm 65:1-13
22 Feb Exodus 26:15-30 1 Chronicles 16:1-43 Luke 23:26-49 Psalm 66:1-20
23 Feb Exodus 26:31-37 1 Chronicles 17:1-18:17 Luke 23:50-24:12 Proverbs 13:1-6
24 Feb Exodus 27:1-8 1 Chronicles 19:1-21:17 Luke 24:13-35 Proverbs 13:7-12
25 Feb Exodus 27:9-19 1 Kings 5:12-6:13 Luke 24:36-53 Proverbs 13:13-18

The complete annual Bible reading plan for 2022-23 (Hebrew year 5783) is available at this link:

https://thebarkingfox.com/2023..../02/17/weekly-bible-

 

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Weekly Bible Reading For February 19-25: Terumah (Offerings) - The Barking Fox

This coming week, February 19-25 (28 Shevat-4 Adar), the Bible reading plan covers the portion Terumah (Offerings). 19 Feb Exodus 25:1-16 1 Chronicles 11:22-12:22 Luke 22:35-54 Psalm 63:1-11 20 Feb Exodus 25:17-30 1 Chronicles 12:23-14:7 Luke 22:55-7

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
Exodus 21:5 ESV

We are set free by #yeshua, our #shabbat, but if we love our Master, we willingly give Him eternal allegiance and OBEDIENCE.

...then 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 21:6 ESV

Is there a connection between the awl and doorpost in this verse and the bloody doorposts of Pesach or the Torah which is to be written on the doorposts? All three are statements of fealty to a Master.

"He that rebuketh a man, shall find more favor at the length, than he that flattereth with his tongue."

Pr 28

Servitude is one part of God's plan for rehabilitating people who habitually make bad decisions and for training downtrodden, landless foreigners into self-supporting Israelites. Although God's Law allows a foreign slave and his children to be kept in perpetuity, a God-fearing master will turn his servant into a Hebrew who must then be released in the 7th year. Exodus 21:2

I served in the United States Air Force for 6 years and was released in the 7th per God's terms defined in Torah. Of course the Air Force probably hadn't considered that and I doubt they gave much thought about turning me into a good, Torah-observant Hebrew.