The Importance of Slavery in the Bible

In the Bible, indentured servitude is not all that it's cracked up to be. There are contracts from Newsy that talk about people voluntarily entering into a type of slavery where they would be adopted by the master and his wife often. In Leviticus 25, 44 to 46 foreigners are not taken as indentured servants; they're taken as chattel slaves and they serve for life. They're passed on as inheritance. You also have sexual slavery in the Hebrew Bible.