If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. (Exodus 21:1)
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do. (Exodus 21:7)
And before you go "GASP!", back then these were actually pretty radical laws and they did make the situation of slavery better. A demand for the complete eradication of slavery would have been seen as pure insanity and nothing would have come from it.
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do. (Exodus 21:7)
And before you go "GASP!", back then these were actually pretty radical laws and they did make the situation of slavery better. A demand for the complete eradication of slavery would have been seen as pure insanity and nothing would have come from it.