Brief Summary Of Leviticus Levius 25-25

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for stealing. Leviticus 25 also explains how slaves gained their freedom due to the reappearance of the year of Jubilee, which was the 50th year (Osiek). In addition, a slave was freed when a master died without living a son. The Hebrews masters were commanded to deal fairly with their slave treating them as hired servant, but not as bondservants. The slaves, therefore, did not experience a harsh environment.
Some Hebrews served non-Hebrew masters that made them be considered as strangers. The stranger servants were regained their freed either during the year of jubilee or by reimbursement of the acquisition money. The slave’s family would raise the money to repay the master, but they had to subtract the sum-total of the amounted paid during

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