But of the
Exodus 19:5
'And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth [is] Mine;
Exodus 19:6
and ye -- ye are to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation: these [are] the words which thou dost speak unto the sons of Israel.'
Leviticus 25:39-46
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'And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;
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as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --
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then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.
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'For they [are] My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;
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thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.
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'And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast [are] of the nations who [are] round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,
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and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who [are] with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;
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and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy [for] a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.
Galatians 4:26
and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
Galatians 4:31
then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.
they were men
1 Samuel 8:11
and saith, 'This is the custom of the king who doth reign over you: Your sons he doth take, and hath appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots;
1 Samuel 8:12
also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer.