Sentences with phrase «for debt bondage»
In the modern world, the weighted average global sales price of a slave is between $ 340 and $ 1,900 for the average s.ex slave, and a low of $ 40 to $ 50 for debt bondage slaves in parts of Asia and Africa
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Most debts in early Mesopotamia were owed to the palace, so rulers basically were cancelling debts owed to themselves and their collectors when they proclaimed Clean Slates that saved their economies from widespread debt bondage that would have diverted labor to work for creditors at the expense of the palace.
There's a third word, aphiēmi which is the root for aphesis, and is sometimes translated forgive (like in first John 1:9), and yet it seems to be used more in the sense of cancellation of debt, than in the sense of release from bondage.
It's Peter Selby's re-issued Grace and Mortgage and it asks profound questions about what our message is to a culture in bondage by debt, who Jesus is for this culture, and with whom we are called to stand in solidarity.
Especially with reference to bondage for debt, the lot of unfortunate Jews was mitigated by successive laws (Deuteronomy15: 12 - 18; Leviticus 25:35 - 43.)
if a man and his wife went into slavery for debt together, they should go free together the seventh year, but if the man, entering bondage alone, was given his wife by his owner, even though children were born, only the man could go free; (Exodus 21:3 - 4.)
One definition states that human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and servitude.
Labor trafficking — or recruiting a person for labor through force, fraud, or coercion for involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or even slavery — has been a difficult problem to track among undocumented migrant workers.
This then creates a situation where students have both the bondage of student loan debt, as well as the added bondage of paying back 3 % of their salary for life!
A Google search for Bada Bing later turned up an article about the club owner's 2007 kidnapping and a startling (if unverified) review of the club that mentioned cartels, HIV transmission, and women forced to work under debt bondage.
It includes slavery, servitude, forced labour, debt bondage, and deceptive recruiting for labour or services.