If an Israeli becomes poor and sells himself to another Israeli, he is not to be treated ruthlessly, as if a slave!
[According to Moses, God says,]
“Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property." (Leviticus 25:44-45)
The institution of slavery is morally neutral in the Bible's book of Leviticus, apparently, but it is not so elsewhere in the scriptures and not so with me.
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