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To: apillar

RE: Back in those days under the law someone could take another person as a “slave” for an unpaid debt, but it wasn’t slavery as we think of it today as they could only be kept in servitude until the debt was paid or 7 years whichever came first.

Let’s take the case of Hagar the servant of Abraham and Sarah for instance... she was told to have sexual relations with Abraham to sire a child ( Ishmael ) by Sarah. Did she have a choice in the matter? What if she said no?

Could someone who was in servitude for say, 7 years be forced to do what Hagar was told to do?


17 posted on 06/25/2020 8:48:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it wil)
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To: SeekAndFind

Depends on the laws at the time.

Recall that, even OUTSIDE of slavery, at that point in time women were property of their husbands.


19 posted on 06/25/2020 9:22:38 AM PDT by Skywise
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