Abram learned that Lot was captured. So Abram called all of his family together. There were 318 trained soldiers. Abram led the men and chased the enemy all the way to the town of Dan.
Genesis 17:13 - Easy To Read Version So every baby boy in your nation will be circumcised. Every boy that is born from your family or bought as a slave will be circumcised. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money must be circumcised; and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. American Standard Version (1901) He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. Common English Bible Be sure you circumcise those born in your household and those purchased with your silver. Your flesh will embody my covenant as an enduring covenant. Catholic Public Domain Version And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an eternal covenant. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And my covenant shall be in your flesh, for a perpetual covenant. |
Abram learned that Lot was captured. So Abram called all of his family together. There were 318 trained soldiers. Abram led the men and chased the enemy all the way to the town of Dan.
Abram said, “You have given me no son. So a slave born in my house will get everything I have.”
And I will prepare an agreement between you and me. This agreement will also be for all your descendants. This agreement will continue forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
We will profit more if we sell him to these traders. Then we will not be guilty of killing our own brother.” The other brothers agreed.
The Midianite traders later sold Joseph in Egypt. They sold him to Potiphar, the captain of the Pharaoh’s guards.
The traders [236] who bought Joseph took him down to Egypt. They sold him to the captain of Pharaoh’s guard, Potiphar.
When I look and see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the agreement that continues forever. I will remember the agreement between me and every living thing on the earth.”
\{Look at those rich people!\} We are as good as they are. Our sons are as good as their sons. But we will have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of us have already had to sell our daughters as slaves! There is nothing we can do! We already lost our fields and vineyards! Other people own them now!”
And I said to those people, “Our Jewish brothers were sold as slaves to people in other countries. We did our best to buy them back and make them free. And now, you are selling them like slaves again!”
But if a person buys a slave, and if he circumcises [77] him, then the slave can eat the Passover.
“If a person steals someone to sell him as a slave or to keep him for his own slave, then that person must be killed.
“If you buy a Hebrew [133] slave, then that slave will serve for only six years. After six years he will become free. He will have to pay nothing.
If the slave is not married, the master can give him a wife. If that wife gives birth to sons or daughters, then she and her children will belong to the master. After the slave is finished with his years of service, then he will be made free.
But if the priest buys a person as a slave with his own money, then that person may eat some of the holy things. {Slaves} that were born in the priest’s house may also eat some of the priest’s food.
The servant was not able to pay the money to his master, the king. So the master ordered that everything the servant owned should be sold, even the servant’s wife and children. The money would be used to pay the king what the servant owed.