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struggle4progress

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6. The text is certainly full of conflicts, representing various layers of editing

Reply to oberliner (Reply #5)

Thu May 24, 2018, 02:23 PM

May 2018

Leviticus 25 earlier also says:

And you must treat every fiftieth year as holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it must be for you the Year of Joy; and you must return to every man his ancestral possessions, and you must return every man to his family

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The Bible is definitely pro-slavery oberliner May 2018 #3

Really? Passover, the central Jewish holiday, celebrates liberation from slavery. struggle4progress May 2018 #4

Yes, really oberliner May 2018 #5

The text is certainly full of conflicts, representing various layers of editing struggle4progress May 2018 #6