Slavery and Oppression Ordained
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. (Gen. 9: 25.)
Of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy.... They shall be your bondmen forever; but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule with rigor. (Lev. 25: 45, 46.)
I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people afar off; for the Lord hath spoken it. (Joel 3: 8.)