Bro. Bill thank you for the welcome!
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Exodus 21:16 specifies the death penalty for both trade and ownership.
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This verse says it is forbidden to steal and and keep or to steal and then to sell slaves, not to buy and to keep them.
Exodus 21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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Eph. 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Eph.6:9 -
And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Tit 2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
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You said that 1 Timothy 1:8 condemns menstealers.
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Yes, it does...menstealer is defined in Exodus 21:16.