. The Bible and its . NRY LE JEUNE, AN ENGLISH ARTIST OF THEEARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY. i7c sJiall be with tJiee, mid shall serve thee unto the yearof Jubilee; and then shall he depart from thee, both heand his children with him.—Lev,, 25, Ifi. AMONG the wnsest and most noble of the ordinancesof the book of Leviticus is that concerning thecontrol of bondservants. An Israelite might, ifdriven by want, sell himself to some richer neighbor; butthe purchaser was forbidden to compel him to servewith rigour as the Egyptians had done. The bond-servant must be treated as a hired servant and a so
. The Bible and its . NRY LE JEUNE, AN ENGLISH ARTIST OF THEEARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY. i7c sJiall be with tJiee, mid shall serve thee unto the yearof Jubilee; and then shall he depart from thee, both heand his children with him.—Lev,, 25, Ifi. AMONG the wnsest and most noble of the ordinancesof the book of Leviticus is that concerning thecontrol of bondservants. An Israelite might, ifdriven by want, sell himself to some richer neighbor; butthe purchaser was forbidden to compel him to servewith rigour as the Egyptians had done. The bond-servant must be treated as a hired servant and a so-journer, not as a helpless slave; and his service must lastonly until the next year of jubilee. This came everyseventh year and when it arrived the bondsman went freeand his family with him. His property also was restoredto him. Unto the possession of his fathers shall he re-turn. For, mark the reason given by God, they are myservants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt:they shall not be sold as bondsmen. 11-72. iWosiesi JgumbersJ tfte people DRAWN BY THE ENGLISH ARTIST, PHILIPPOTEAU. So he numbered them in the wUdemess of Sinai.—Num., 1, 19. \\ THEN the first full year was passed that Israel%/%/ had spent in the wilderness, God commandedMoses to take a census, a numbering of allthe men of the nation. A prince of each tribe was calledto aid Moses and Aaron in this task; and the entirecongregation marched past them and were declared . .according to the number of the names, by their polls,every male from twenty years old and upward, all thatwere able to go forth to war. This military reckoning of Israels numbers has beenmuch discussed, mainly because our present version of thescriptures gives the enormous total of over six hundredthousand men in Israel. This, with the women and thechildren and the aged, would indicate a nation of perhapsthree million people, undoubtedly an enormous horde tohave wandered with their herds over this bare peninsulaof Sinai. If the nu
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