I bow to the scriptures here.
That said, the things that the Egyptians did to the Hebrews would have been unconscionable.
There is a lot in “Love thy neighbor as thyself” which we sometimes give short shrift to today, because it’s so sweeping and we want a simple enumeration... because we don’t want the Spirit to teach it, but our intellect.
Anyhow, a modern Calvinball loosely based on the Old Testment is asking to get smited by the Lord if it ignores, or even worse, gainsays, the 1st and 2nd Commandments in the process.
> “There is a lot in “Love thy neighbor as thyself” which we sometimes give short shrift to today, because it’s so sweeping and we want a simple enumeration... because we don’t want the Spirit to teach it, but our intellect.
Along with “Love thy neighbor as thyself”, I think it was ultimately the effects of “Do unto others as you would have them do to you” that helped bring about an end to slavery in Christian countries and wherever that principle is accepted.