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To: Elsie
""What the HELL was I thinking, when I let those Israelites go???"

Pharoh"

That wasn't against slavery per se; it was against the slavery of the Israelites. Notice that Moses left the rest of the slaves in Egypt. There are no antislavery statements in the Bible.
316 posted on 12/15/2005 6:19:27 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Notice that Moses left the rest of the slaves in Egypt.

He DID????

WHAT 'other' slaves??


NIV Exodus 1:1-13
 1.  These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
 2.  Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
 3.  Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
 4.  Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
 5.  The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy  in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
 6.  Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
 7.  but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
 8.  Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
 9.  "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.
 10.  Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."
 11.  So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
 12.  But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
 13.  and worked them ruthlessly.
 
 
 
 
Seems to me the 'other' slaves could have left along with him if they wished!
 
 
NIV Exodus 12:43-51
 43.  The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover:   "No foreigner is to eat of it.
 44.  Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him,
 45.  but a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat of it.
 46.  "It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
 47.  The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
 48.  "An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it.
 49.  The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you."
 50.  All the Israelites did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
 51.  And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

318 posted on 12/15/2005 6:30:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
There are no antislavery statements in the Bible.
 
Oh??
 
 
 NIV John 8:31-37
 31.  To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
 32.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
 33.  They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants  and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
 34.  Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
 35.  Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
 36.  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
 37.  I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.


319 posted on 12/15/2005 6:35:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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