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In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeEntering The ArkOther Wives

And he said, "Cursed [be] Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers."

Verse Conceptsslavery

Then he said, "Blessed [be] Yahweh, the God of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave to them.

Verse ConceptsBless The Lord!

May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him."

Verse ConceptsEnlargementTents

Abram continued, “Look, You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir.”

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofAbrahamSlavery, In OtBorn In One's HouseNot Giving

Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryGod's Mercy, Example OfNamed WivesWifeHaving A Babyservanthoodbabysarahmistress

Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeCriticism, against believersAbraham, Testing And VictoryPeople Possibly Doing Evil

Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfMastersOppression, Nature OfSuffering, Causes OfEmployers, Bad ExamplesGiven Into One's HandsLeaving People Alonemistress

He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Verse ConceptsWhere From?Where To?mistress

Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. This includes a slave born in your house and one purchased with money from any foreigner. The one who is not your offspring,

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfLess Than A Year OldBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGroups Of Slaves

a slave born in your house, as well as one purchased with money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyProselytesThe Eternal CovenantBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsGroups Of Slaves

And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

Verse ConceptsAt The Same Time

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave women, and they gave birth.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesAnswered PrayerPraying For SinnersPraying For Others

Then she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialFamilyQuarrelsOld Testament People As Typessarah

Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased} on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you}, for through Isaac [your] offspring will be named.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProphecies Concerning ChristPay Attention To People!sarah

And I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is your offspring."

And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great. And He has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and male slaves and slave women, and camels and asses.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCowsGenerosity, God'sGoldSilverAbraham, In SocietyOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesSupplied With MoneyBlessed By GodMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

Verse Conceptssarah

And Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.

Verse ConceptsMaids

Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me so that through her I too can build a family.”

Verse ConceptsKneelingMaidsMarital SexKneesMarital Sex Between

Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesCessationGiving In Marriage

And Zilpah, the female slave of Leah, bore a son to Jacob.

When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.

Verse ConceptsGiving In MarriagePeople With Apt NamesReward For Works

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two slave women, and he did not find. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Verse ConceptsTentsNot Finding

This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you -- fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Verse ConceptsdowryCovetousness, Example OfDishonesty, Examples OfThe Number FourteenTen TimesSix YearsTen To Fourteen Years20 To 30 YearsChangeServing Individuals

And I have oxen and asses, flocks, and menservants, and slave women. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in your sight.

Verse ConceptsGoatsCowsOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsDuring One NightTwo WomenElevenFords

And he put the slave women and their children first, and Leah and her children afterward, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Verse ConceptsPartialityOrder Of MarchLast OnesIn Front

Then the slave women came near, they and their boys, and they bowed themselves.

The sons of Rachel’s slave Bilhah
were Dan and Naphtali.

The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah
were Gad and Asher.


These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

The Lord was with Joseph, and he [even though a slave] became a successful and prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleSuccess Through GodThe Presence Of GodBlessings And ProsperitySuccess And Hard Workprospering

Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me.

When his master heard the story his wife told him—“These are the things your slave did to me”—he was furious

Verse ConceptsPrisonersTelling What People DidNamed People Angry With Others

Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation.

Verse ConceptsTelling Dreams

And the steward said, “Now let it be as you say; he with whom the cup is found will be my slave, but the rest of you shall be blameless.”

Verse ConceptsMaking SlavesExempt

But he said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found, he will become my slave. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutExemptFar Be It!

Now, therefore, please let your servant (Judah) remain here instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his brothers.

Verse ConceptsVicarious SubstitutionHalf brothers

O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

He observed that his resting place was excellent, and that the land was pleasant; he bent down, picked up his burdens, and became a slave at forced labor."

Verse ConceptsSubjectionThose At EaseForced LabourGood Qualities

And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, [while] her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman [for it] and took it

Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsMonotonyPeace, Human Search ForPrayer, As Asking GodSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Of The InnocentCaptivity, Of IsraelCrying To GodMoving UpwardsCries Of Distress To GodMaking SlavesDeath Of Office HoldersParents Prayer For Their Childrenprocess

The LORD said, "I have certainly seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their slave masters. I really do understand their pain,

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHearingReceptivenessSensitivityTaskmastersGod, All knowingGod Seeing Their AfflictionCries Of Distress To GodGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Sending His SonAfflictions

And on that day Pharaoh commanded the slave drivers over the people and his foremen, saying,

Verse ConceptsOverseersTaskmasters

And the slave drivers of the people and their foremen went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I [am] not giving you straw.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTaskmasters

And the slave drivers [were] insisting, saying, "Finish your work {for each day} on its day, as {when there was straw}."

And the foremen of the {Israelites}, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten [by men who were] saying, "Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking {as before, both yesterday and today}?"

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesFloggingIncomplete Works

For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Verse ConceptsNo One Is Like GodKnowing God's Character

and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who [is] behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal.

Verse ConceptsGrindingSittingThroneDeath Of The FirstbornDeath Of CreaturesGreat And SmallBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other GroupsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildFamily Death

and ye have observed the unleavened things, for in this self-same day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and ye have observed this day to your generations -- a statute age-during.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsLaw, OtNew Year, TheOrdinancesRegulations For PassoverEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptThe Law Given To Israel

and it cometh to pass, at the end of four hundred and thirty years -- yea, it cometh to pass in this self-same day -- all the hosts of Jehovah have gone out from the land of Egypt.

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreLeaving EgyptAt The Same TimeEarthly Armiesdivision

But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalServanthood, In SocietyServants Of PeopleCircumcision

And it cometh to pass in this self-same day, Jehovah hath brought out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, by their hosts.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordAt The Same TimeEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egyptorganization

But the seventh day [is] a Sabbath for Yahweh your God; you will not do any work--you or your son or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your animal, or your alien who [is] in your gates--

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestIndustryStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And WomenSabbaths InstitutedStrangers in israel

If his master gives him a wife and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and [the slave] will go out single.

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtIsolated PersonsMarriage Controlled

But if the slave explicitly says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,"

Verse ConceptsEmployeesPeople Freeing SlavesWivesslaveryservanthood

" 'And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsdaughtersPeople Freeing Slavessales

And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

Verse ConceptsFloggingBeating PeopleManslaughterJudicial PunishmentStriking People With A StaffPropertyslaveryAbuseNervousness

However, if the slave can stand up after a day or two, the owner should not be punished because he is his owner’s property.

Verse ConceptsSeveral DaysAlternatives To MoneyUnpunishedPropertyslavery

" 'And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

And if he causes the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave to fall out, he will release him as free in place of his tooth.

Verse ConceptsDentistryBreaking TeethFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he will give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox will be stoned.

Verse ConceptsCompensationSilverSlavery, In OtSlavesInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsPrice Set On Individuals

" 'Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed.

Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

and in the candlestick self, four cups like unto almonds with their knops and flowers:

Verse ConceptsFour Vessels

Thou, therefore, take to thee - principal spices, - self-flowing myrrh, five hundred, and fragrant cinnamon, half as much, two hundred and fifty, and, fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

Verse ConceptsMyrrhCinnamonDelicacies

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersHeirsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityServants Of The LordGolden CalvesEternal PossessionGod Swearing Blessings

And upon the candlestick self, were four cups after the fashion of almonds with knops and flowers:

Verse ConceptsFour Vessels

But, if she he clean from her flow, then shall she count to her-self seven days and afterwards, shall she count herself clean.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysSeven Days For Legal Purposescleansing

“This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeDay Of AtonementNew Year, TheOrdinancesWork, And RestStrangersAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Foreigners Included In The LawNo Work On Feast DaysHumbling Oneself

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

Verse ConceptsAfflicting Your SoulSabbaths Instituted

‘Now if a man has intimate relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for [marriage to] another man, but who has not been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment [after an investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, the slave may eat the holy thing, and those who are born in the priest’s house; they may eat his food.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfRightsSlavesPermitted To Eat Offerings

And bread and roasted corn and full ears ye do not eat until this self-same day, until your bringing in the offering of your God -- a statute age-during to your generations, in all your dwellings.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPerpetual StatutesEating Forbidden Food

and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work -- a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.

Verse ConceptsHolidayNo Work On Feast Days

“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; you are to present a fire offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHolidayMonthNew Year, TheAutumnConvocationsAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Humbling OneselfMonths

and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsNo Work On Feast Days

'For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people;

Verse ConceptsThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelHumbling Oneself

and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people;

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Kills

It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfCelebrationsAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Sabbaths InstitutedHumbling OneselfRestcelebrating

And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for you and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents who are dwelling as aliens with you;

Verse ConceptsHiringStrangers

A jubilee, shall that fiftieth year be unto you, - ye shall not sow, neither shall ye reap the self-grown corn thereof, nor cut off the grapes of the unpruned vines thereof.

Verse ConceptsLaws About AgricultureReaping What You Sow

‘And if your fellow countryman becomes so poor [in his dealings] with you that he sells himself to you [as payment for a debt], you shall not let him do the work of a slave [who is ineligible for redemption],

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtPoor People

Because they [are] my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold {as a slave}.

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

" 'As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that [are] all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman.

Verse ConceptsMaking SlavesDealing With The Nationsslavery

And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self shall not abhor you.

Verse ConceptsGod Living With UsGod Not Forsaking

and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self abhors my regulations, to not carry out all my commands [by] your breaking my covenant,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodAbhorBreaking The Covenant

And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesDestruction Of Satan's WorksInadequate BurialsNo IncenseFate Of IdolatersGod Hating People

And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves must pay for their guilt, {simply because} they rejected my regulations, and their inner self abhorred my statutes.

Verse ConceptsAbhorRejection Of God

On the seventh day you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

Verse ConceptsConvocationsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7No Work On Feast Days