Lev 25 not about slavery
25 : from the original manuscripts
ועבדך Your male workers - ואמתך your female workers - אשׁר whom - יהיו־לך are - מאת themselves - הגוים foreigners heathens -
אשׁר whom - סביבתיכם are from around you - מהם them - תקנו you will buy - עבד male worker - ואמה׃ and female worker
Meaning from the manuscripts
: 25 Your male workers your female workers whom are themselves foreigners / heathens whom are from around you,, them you will buy male worker and female worker
Lev 25 is specifically about - debt forgiveness ordinance -
“ YEAR OF JUBILEE “ - every 7 years, and dealing with the homeless and poor and those in debt. - The “ YEAR OF JUBILEE “ was a - debt forgiveness ordinance -that occurred - every seven years. As an act of Kindness - Privileges Benefits - designated only for Fellow Israeli ; Israeli citizens - Jews..... The context of the passage is referring specifically Directly to the “ YEAR OF JUBILEE “ and dealing with the homeless and poor and those in debt. - Redeeming the Poor whom are indebted.
THE PASSAGE IS NOT ABOUT “ THE CAPTURE “ AND ROUNDING UP OF HEATHENS AND STRANGERS AND ENSLAVING THEM.
CONTEXT
Lev 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Meaning = every 7 years, poor Israeli citizens who had fallen into debt were to be completely forgiven of their unbearable debts - and in most cases, property they had lost would be returned to them.
:36 Take thou no usury “ do not be lending money “ to him, or increase his debt. - that thy brother may live with thee.
:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury - lending money , nor lend him thy victuals / food / provisions - for increase.
:39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Lev 25:40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
:41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
BUT FOR NON - Israeli citizens, strangers -
strangers in debt,
strangers whom are homeless,
strangers whom have occurred loss of property
strangers whom are poor and have financial loss
the NON ISRAELI CITIZENS WORKERS who are working to pay off these debts
:44 the NON ISRAELI CITIZENS WORKERS bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
THE PASSAGE - is explaining that this privilege of debt forgiveness regarding the - “ YEAR OF JUBILEE “ - every 7 years
and specifically in dealing with the homeless and poor and those in debt. - The “ YEAR OF JUBILEE “ was a - debt forgiveness ordinance -that occurred - every seven years.
:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever:
but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
:54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
The reality is that those in debt worked for others to pay off their debts, after the indebted or obligated worker was finished with a job performed, their boss or caretaker would contract them out to someone else who would pay for the services.
BUT - every 7 years the “ YEAR OF JUBILEE “ - every 7 years - the homeless and poor and those in debt received complete and fully automatic debt forgiveness - every seven years, As an act of Kindness - Privileges Benefits - designated only for Fellow Israeli ; Israeli citizens - Jews
The context of the passage is referring specifically Directly to the YEAR OF JUBILEE “ and dealing with the homeless and poor and those in debt. - Redeeming the Hebrew Citizens whom were Poor whom were indebted.
THE PASSAGE IS NOT ABOUT - the foreigners (( NON CITIZENS )))) HEATHENS or STRANGERS - do not have this privilege.
NON CITIZENS - “ foreigners “ would forever remain as workers,, bond servants - whom when “ if “ debt occurred, they fell into debt
their property and inheritance would not be returned to them
their debts and losses could be transferred
debts and losses could be re assigned
debts and losses could be relocated
to another, who will put them to work - that they finish repaying their debts.
