Bible Cross References
But of the
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will listen to obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6
And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.
Leviticus 25:39-46
39
And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and has sold himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.
40
As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41
And then he shall depart from you; he and his children with him; and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers.
42
For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
43
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your God.
44
And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you shall buy male and female slaves.
45
Moreover you shall buy the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall be your property.
46
And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with harshness.
Galatians 4:26
but the Jerusalem from above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Galatians 4:31
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
they were men
1 Samuel 8:11
And he said, This shall be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint commanders over his thousands and commanders over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his implements of war and equipment for his chariots.