1. Duties towards employees.
   • OT=Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14-15; Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5
   • NT=James 5:4
   1. Hired servants.
      • OT=Deut. 24:14
      • NT=Col. 4:1; I Peter 2:18
      1. Daily payment of wages required.
         • OT= Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:15
      2. Just wages required.
         • NT=Col. 4:1
      3. Withholding of wages forbidden.
         • NT= James 5:4
      4. Duties of masters and servants.
         • OT=Lev. 22:10
         • NT=Eph. 6:5-9; I Tim. 6:1-2

2. Duties of masters and slaves
   1. Israel not to enslave brethern ( Israelites ) for life.
      • OT=Ex. 21:2-6; Lev. 25:39-43; Deut. 15:12-18
      1. To be hired servants, not bond servants.
         • OT=Lev. 25:39-40
      2. To be freed in the seventh year.
         • OT=Ex. 21:2; Deut. 15:12
         1. Unless they desire to serve for life.
            • OT=Ex. 21:5-6; Deut. 15:16-17
   2. Rights of a daughter sold as a slave.
      • OT=Ex. 21:7-11
   3. Israel may possess other nations as slaves.
      • OT=Lev. 25:44-46
   4. An Israelite enslaved for debt may be redeamed at any time.
      • OT=Lev. 25:47-55
   5. A fugitive slave to be protected.
      • OT=Deut. 23:15-16
   6. The penalty for killing a slave.
      • OT=Ex. 21:20-21
   7. A slave injured by his master must be set free.
      • OT=Ex. 21:26-27
   8. The money value of a slave's life.
      • OT=Ex. 21:32
   9. A slave may share in the family's religion.
      • OT=Ex. 12:43-45; Deut.12:17-18

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