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removed implication of support for slavery, be it serious or an attempt to discredit site.
==Slavery in the Bible ==
==Slavery in the Bible ==
Slavery is also referenced, controlled and regulated in the Bible. There are many instances:
Slavery is also referenced, controlled and regulated in the Bible, for example:
* "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice (slavery) unto this day. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen." -- I Kings 9:20-22
* "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice (slavery) unto this day. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen." -- I Kings 9:20-22
* The book of Philemon is a record of Paul returning a slave to his owner.
* The book of Philemon is a record of Paul returning a slave to his owner.
==References==
==References==