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Exodus 21:1-6
Excerpted from: Life Is Service (Part Two)

Now notice this is in Exodus 21, which is just after Exodus 20 where the Ten Commandments are. And once you get into Exodus 21 this is the beginning of the Old Covenant. God is giving the laws that He wanted the Israelites to follow under the Old Covenant. And slavery is essentially the first thing that He mentions, that He broaches. So let us read verses 1 through 6 here.

So we see one set of laws here on how the Israelites were to deal with slavery and it is put right into the Old Covenant. Now, this makes a whole lot of sense that He would broach this immediately. Since He was making this covenant with newly-freed slaves, it was on their mind. They were probably thinking, "Have I just traded one master for another? And it's going to to be just as bad under God that it was under the Egyptian system." So He gives them a fair shake here when He describes how slavery will be dealt with within Israel.

It is: an Israelite slave can be made to serve only six years and he is supposed to be treated, not really as a slave, but as a hired servant. You might say, that is not much difference there. But generally they would treat a hired man or a hired woman much fairer than they would a slave. And that after his time was up, he was able to leave a free man and he would not have to pay anything for the price of his freedom. It says there in verse 2, "He shall go out free and pay nothing." Actually, for the times this was exceptionally liberal, you might call it exceptionally generous and fair.

Exodus 21:3-6
Excerpted from: Psalm 23 (Part 1)

You have been bought with a price, brethren; and you have become a spiritual Jew regardless of your ethnic background. You are now a spiritual Jew. You are a Hebrew. But you have been a slave.

The place where this ceremony took place was at the doorpost. It was symbolic of a slave being attached to a house (meaning family, meaning kingdom). As you can see, the ear was involved as that part that was attached to the house. Spiritually, brethren, being attached to the house—to the Family, to the Kingdom of God—has something to do with the ear. It has something to do with hearing. And faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. How you hear the Word of God is going to determine how deeply attached you are to the house, because the just live by faith and faith comes by hearing. It is not a perfect analogy, but it is something to be aware of.

Exodus 21:6
Excerpted from: John (Part Seventeen)

Notice the word judges. That word in the Hebrew is elohim. “Shall bring him to the gods.”

Why were the judges of Exodus 21:6 called gods? Because they were acting in God’s behalf. God was the real ruler, but the judges were the ones the people could see. They were acting in God’s behalf before the people. They were standing before the people, judging as though God was their judge. The implication is that God would inspire and guide the judges of Israel in the making of decisions as long as they were using the law of God to make their decisions.

Exodus 21:6
Excerpted from: The Father-Son Relationship (Part Eight)

Where is the word "Elohim" hidden in this verse? Elohim is exposed in the word "judges." The Hebrew people held judges, along with people like a king, to be representatives of God. In this particular case judges were His agents rendering verdicts on behalf of God, for God, for the people. Therefore they were essentially "mighty" people—people of strength and power within the community. So to them it was perfectly natural to translate Elohim into "judges."

Exodus 21:5-6
Excerpted from: Entanglement with the Yoke of Bondage

Turn with me to Exodus 21. The ninth command that I have listed here is that, in fact, the probability existed here that, at times, an indentured servant (or, a slave)—when given permission to become a free man—would request not to go out free. Under the Old Covenant, definite provision was made whereby also such a desire could be fulfilled.

Exodus 21:6
Excerpted from: The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 19)

How long is forever in this case, when we are talking about human beings? A human being cannot serve another human being any longer than he lives. That is pretty clear. A definition begins to arise for how the Bible uses forever. Forever, in the Bible, means "as long as the factors which set the conditions exist."

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