9 occurrences

'Servant' in the Bible

Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I am not a man of words (eloquent, fluent), neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

but every man’s slave who is bought with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalServanthood, In SocietyServants Of PeopleCircumcision

No stranger (temporary resident, foreigner) or hired servant shall eat it.

“If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingPunishment, Nature OfSlavery, In OtYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsPeople Freeing SlavesThe Law On SlaveryFree Of ChargeslaveryFreedomservanthood

But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’

Verse ConceptsEmployeesPeople Freeing SlavesWivesslaveryservanthood

“If a man strikes his male or his female servant with a staff and the servant dies at his hand, he must be punished.

Verse ConceptsFloggingBeating PeopleManslaughterJudicial PunishmentStriking People With A StaffPropertyslaveryAbuseNervousness

If, however, the servant survives for a day or two, the offender shall not be punished, for the [injured] servant is his own property.

Verse ConceptsSeveral DaysAlternatives To MoneyUnpunishedPropertyslavery

“If a man hits the eye of his male servant or female servant and it is destroyed, he must let the servant go free because of [the loss of] the eye.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

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