12 Bible Verses about Making Slaves

But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you.

You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property.

Good! the man replied. I would do what you have said. But only the one who has the cup will become my slave. The rest of you can go free.

You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face.

For my people and I have been sold for slaughter and destruction. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

This contains an allegory (symbolic drama). These women symbolize two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.

Later they changed their minds and took back the men and women they had freed and made them their slaves again.

Now you have changed again and dishonored me. You brought back the male and females slaves that you had set free to live their own lives. You have forced them to be your male and female slaves again.'

They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.