Forced Labor

“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. — read the full passage →

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. — read the full passage →

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. — read the full passage →

A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. — read the full passage →

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. — read the full passage →

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. — read the full passage →

At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. — read the full passage →

If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises in your midst you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, — read the full passage →

“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, — read the full passage →

But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. — read the full passage →

Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. — read the full passage →

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. — read the full passage →

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”