Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Leviticus 25:39.
Leviticus 25:39-44
Excerpted from: Titus (Part Five): A Church in TrainingThat is all I really want there. Just to give you a little bit of a taste of the way God regulated slavery at the time.
Like I said, this gives you a kind of a taste of how God wanted to regulate this institution within the nation of Israel. So, an Israelite slave had to be treated as a hired servant and he could leave a free man after his time of service. No slave, whatever the case, could be made to serve more than 49 years. Until the next Jubilee, when all were to be set free, all were to be given liberty. Moreover, when an Israelite slave was freed, his master had to give him animals and grain and wine liberally— load him down with these things so that he could get a fresh start. But the institution itself was not abolished. He worked within it.
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