Inuyasha wrote:
91 wrote:
@skafather84
Exodus 21:16, 'Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death.'
Hmm, so looks like slavers that kidnap people and take them to Ancient Israel in order to sell them have a death sentence on their heads if the Israelis had found out that they were kidnapped.
Yeah, despite the popular belief to the contrary, ancient Israel had some of the most stringent slavery laws before the nineteenth century. The abundance of rules relating to how slaves could be treated is often misrepresented. (@potential responders, before you mention the Canaanites, please do some research.)
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