Naked Bible 255: Exodus 1 Part 1
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The Consensus of Sarna
There's no evidence that the women were enslaved or that slavery involved the dissolution of the family unit. One text shows in the Bible that the Israelites could live next door to or even in the same house as Egyptians and maintain social relations with them. What we are dealing with is state slavery, the organized imposition of forced labor upon the male population. For long and indefinite terms of service under degrading and brutal conditions, the men so conscripted received no rewards for their laborers. Their lot was generally much worse than that of a household slave.
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