Message Translation and Dictation Our current need timeless The Bible is but never gets Read the Bible as opposed to “When you rake you get leaves. When you dig you get diamonds.” John Piper 1| Slavery was 2| The Bible doesn’t slavery 3| The about slavery are laws Exodus 21:1–3 - Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4| The Bible moved forward Exodus 21:26-27 - “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth. Job 31:13–15 - “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 5| Christian ideas were the for Mark 10:45 - For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.