42For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
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For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-55)We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God’s sons, his first-born. Now the law is, I. That a native Israelite should never be made a bondman for perpetuity. If he was sold for debt, or for a crime, by the house of judgment, he was to se…
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