Servant: Bond: Rights of Those Born to a Master

And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.

I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,

Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?