Quotes About Slavery

That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:

So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ëI am no longer giving you straw.

Now the duration of the Israelitesí stay in Egypt was 430 years.

But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

In the future, when your son asks you, ëWhat does this mean?í you are to tell him, ëWith a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.