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Ben Sira 33
Ben Sira 33:26
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You can use a harness and yoke to tame an animal, and a slave can be tortured in the stocks.
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A donkey should be given its fodder and its burden, and it should be beaten. A slave should be given food and work, and should be disciplined.
25
If you make your slave work, you can set your mind at ease. If you don't keep him busy, he will be looking for freedom.
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You can use a harness and yoke to tame an animal, and a slave can be tortured in the stocks.
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Keep him at work, and don't let him be idle; idleness can only teach him how to make trouble.
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Work is what he needs. If he won't obey you, put him in chains.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.