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[[File:romans13-3w.jpg|right|450px|thumb|The [[bondage of Egypt]] was the result of entering into a [[corvee]] system of statutory [[bondage]](bondage by [[consent]] through [[Civil law]]) which the people have been warned in the Bible to ''never return to'' as we see stated by [[Moses]] and all the prophets,  "... nor cause the people to return to [[Egypt]]... forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way." [[Deuteronomy 17]]:16
: The [[Bondage of Egypt]] was the result of eating at the [[table]] of the [[Pharaoh]] and going into debt where a portion of your labor belonged to the State. This is because the [[tables]] of the authoritarian State which have been the [[social safety net]]s of societies from [[Babylon]] to [[Sumer]] and are a '''[[Snare|snare and a trap]]'''. <Br>Returning to the '''[[Bondage of Egypt]]''' is when the people are again ''[[entangled]] in the [[elements]] of the [[world]]'' and are returning to [[The mire]] because the [[masses]] will not [[hear]] the cries of the needy and have an [[appetite]] for [[dainties]] of rulers at their neighbors' expense. An ancient way to [[Employ|enslave]] a nation of people is to tempt them to with the [[covetous practices]] of [[socialism]] which that makes them [[merchandise]] and [[curse children|curses their children]]. This new status brought them into what was called [[Corvee]]  bringing them under [[tribute]]. How it works is explained in: '''[http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php Employ vs Enslave]'''. [[Seek]]ing the [[kingdom of God]] is following the [[righteous]] [[The Way|Way]] of Christ and the [[perfect law of liberty]].]]

== Corvee ==

The Bible said many things in opposition to slavery and limiting many forms and abused in institutions of servitude. Certainly the scriptures whe fully understood were in opposition to to [[oppress]]ion, [[Cruel|cruelty]], and national slavery that you find in [[corvee]] systems.

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“Slaves never became an important ingredient of Egyptian civilization. The large subject population and enforceable ''corvée system'' - by which serfs had to work temporarily as slaves - made a permanent force of slaves unnecessary.” History of Slavery, Susan Everett
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[[Corvee|Corvée]], or statute labour, is unpaid labour imposed by the state on certain classes of people for the performance of work on public projects. 

The ''etymology'' of the word corvée has its origins in [[Rome]], and reached English via French. In the later Roman Empire the citizens performed ''opera publica'' or ''public works''.  The term is not limited to [[feudalism]] in Europe but can be applied to ancient [[Egypt]], [[Sumer]], and [[Rome]]. The idea that a State has the power to compel unpaid labor or can force people to turn over the value of their labor to the State has existed every where slavery is allowed. It was a form of [[taxation]] in a society with a limited money supply. But today the imposing of income tax upon private labor  may equivalent to the "day's unpaid labor due to a lord by vassals under French feudal system" (abolished 1776)"<Ref>https://www.etymonline.com/word/corvee</Ref>

Israelite people were in a [[Corvee]] system used by Egyptians. And [[King Solomon]] instituted a similar system to the detriment of Solomon and Israel.

<blockquote>''“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” —Johann W. Von Goethe''</blockquote>

==Three corvee terms ==

The systems of [[corvee]] from ancient times to the present day of [[Employ|legal employment]] are both forms of [[taxation]] and would qualify as a form of [[bondage]]. The power of the State to control the natural use of the labor of [[individual]]s as [[persons]] is the essence of servitude if not slavery. [[Servitude]] is still legal in the United States as long as it is not involuntary. 

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'''Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. '''

'''Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.'''   Article XIII - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude 
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This topic has been an extensive theme and subject of the Bible and has much been neglected by modern interpretation through [[sophistry|ignorance and design]] if not by [[sloth]] and [[avarice]]:

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"CORVÉE, forced labor imposed by a conqueror on the conquered, or by a government on the citizens under its jurisdiction. Corvée labor is one of the most obvious features of the centralism in ancient Near Eastern states;... Women as well as men could be drafted for forced labor, and even animals were requisitioned for some purposes. On the other hand, certain individuals, members of certain crafts, and various social strata and settlements might be exempted from the corvée, as a personal or collective privilege."<Ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/ancient-history-middle-ages-and-feudalism/corvee</Ref>
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"The diversity in the forms, terminology, and origins of the corvée is likewise reflected in the biblical text." 
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'''Three separate terms''' are used, but... original distinctions have become blurred ...
#. '''(1) ''mas''' oved'' ... "compulsory labor"... from [[Merchants of men|Canaanite]] ''massu''...
#. '''(2) sevel''' or '''cebel''' (= Akk. sablum)''', a term found in the Mari documents<Ref name="mari"></Ref>... are also found in scripture: sivlot ("burdens"...); sabbal ("burden-bearer"...); subbolo ("his burden"...). 
#. '''(3) perekh'''...'''[[force]]d labor''' ... Israel became familiar with corvée labor... as the slavery in Egypt ... [and as] tributaries of the [[Merchants of men|Canaanites]] and ... the Gibeonites to become "hewers of wood and drawers of water"... was in fact imposing on them corvée labor. ... later was Solomon forced to demand compulsory labor from the population to carry out the vast building projects he had undertaken. ... "Then King Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted.…" ... King Josiah repaired the Temple with the labor of sabbalim ("corvée workers"). There was also corvée labor during the period of the return to Zion. The wall around Jerusalem was built by corvée laborers ([[Nehemiah 4]]:11)."<Ref>'''Three separate terms''' are used, but they are sometimes juxtaposed, a sign that the original distinctions have become blurred (see Exodus 1:11–12):<Br>'''(1) ''mas''' oved'' ([[Genesis 49]]:10; [[Joshua 16]]:10, etc.; "compulsory labor"), and sometimes mas alone (e.g., [[1 Kings 4]]:6; 5:27). This expression is '''derived from [[Merchants of men|Canaanite]] ''massu'', "corvée worker,"''' attested at *El-Amarna[''eastern side of the Nile River, ... [[temples]], government establishments, utilitarian facilities such as grain silos''] and *Alalakh[Bronze Age [[city-state]] ]. A Hebrew seal dating from the seventh century b.c.e. reads "belonging to Pelaiah who is in charge of the ''mas''." <Br>'''(2) ''sevel''  or ''cebel''  (= Akk. sablum)''', a term found in the Mari documents[The Mari or ''Maʾeri'' documents'',  20,000 cuneiform tablets, give information about the earliest government, its customs, and people. More than 3000 are letters, the remainder includes administrative, economic, and judicial texts.''] (18th century b.c.e.). Its particularized meaning is a labor unit for emergency use. It appears three times in the Bible, [[1 Kings 11]]:28; [[Psalms 81]]:7; and [[Nehemiah 4]]:11. Cognate nouns from the same stem are also found in scripture: ''sivlot'' ("burdens": [[Exodus 1]]:11; [[Exodus 2]]:11; [[Exodus 5]]:4–5; [[Exodus 6]]:6–7); sabbal ("burden-bearer": [[1 Kings 5]]:29; [[2 Chronicles 2]]:1, 17; [[2 Chronicles 34]]:13); subbolo ("his burden": [[Isaiah 9]]:3; [[Isaiah 10]]:27; [[Isaiah 14]]:25).<Br> '''(3) perekh''', sometimes said to be a term, Mesopotamian by origin, for '''[[force]]d labor'''; but its general meaning in the [[Bible]] seems to be "harshness" or "ruthlessness" ([[Exodus 1]]:11-12; [[Exodus 2]]:11; [[Leviticus 25]]:43, 46; [[Ezekiel 34]]:4). The children of Israel became familiar with corvée labor ([[Exodus 1]]:11, et al.) in the course of their wanderings, inasmuch as the slavery in Egypt was a prolonged period of compulsory labor. During the Israelite conquest corvée labor was one of the indications of the nature of relations between the [[Merchants of men|Canaanite]] population. According to the biblical account, sometimes the Israelites were tributaries of the Canaanites and sometimes the position was reversed ([[Genesis 49]]:15; [[Judges 1]]:33, et al.). There are those who think that by compelling the Gibeonites to become "hewers of wood and drawers of water" ([[Joshua 9]]:21) Joshua was in fact imposing on them corvée labor. Corvée labor became a permanent institution only in the period of the monarchy. According to [[2 Samuel 20]]:24, the minister who was "over the levy" was one of the highest officials in David's regime. It seems that he was a foreigner, attached to the royal staff for his expertise. The same official served Solomon and Rehoboam ([[1 Kings 4]]:6; 1 Kings 12]]:18; [[2 Chronicles 10]]:18). Possibly, at first, only foreign elements in the country were obliged to submit to corvée labor ([[1 Kings 9]]:20–22; [[2 Chronicles 8]]:7–9); only later was Solomon forced to demand compulsory labor from the population to carry out the vast building projects he had undertaken. Some scholars have supposed that ''mas oved'' was the term applied when foreign manpower was used and that ''sevel'' was indicative of an Israelite labor force. Yet such a distinction is not sufficiently evident, even if the corvée imposed by Solomon upon the tribes of the House of Joseph was called ''sevel'' ([[1 Kings 11]]:28). Mendelsohn suggested that mas (or sevel) was the corvée exacted for short periods from freemen. According to his view, the term mas oved means "state slavery." The Bible states that Solomon sent thirty thousand men to hew cedars in Lebanon for the building of the Temple, in monthly shifts of ten thousand ([[1 Kings 5]]:26–28). Similarly, he had at his disposal some seventy thousand "corvée workers" and eighty thousand "hewers in the mountains" ([[1 Kings 5]]:29ff.). There is a hint of the continuation of the corvée tradition in the reign of Asa ([[1 Kings 15]]:22). Asa built Geba Benjamin with stones taken by his subjects from Ramah: "Then King Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted.…" (i.e., none could refuse the corvée). According to [[2 Chronicles 34]]:13, King Josiah repaired the Temple with the labor of sabbalim ("corvée workers"). There was also corvée labor during the period of the return to Zion. The wall around Jerusalem was built by corvée laborers ([[Nehemiah 4]]:11)."  https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/ancient-history-middle-ages-and-feudalism/corvee</Ref>
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Besides the linguistic yield of the ''Mari documents''<Ref name="mari">The Mari or ''Maeri'' documents'',  20,000 cuneiform tablets, give information about the earliest government, its customs, and people. More than 3000 are letters, the remainder includes administrative, economic, and judicial texts.''</Ref> and their Hebrew cognates may reveal the nature of the societies and governments at that time. There is a longlist of lexical items and includes the term "''mas''/škabum = Hebrew mishkav, "a lodging" which is the root of ''mas oved'' "compulsory labor"; there is ''sablum'' = Hebrew ''sevel'' "forced labor", "corvée"; which taking of the value of a man's labor, which is servitude,<Ref>“Whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.” —Homer, Odyssey.
: "None are more hopelessly [[employ|enslaved]] than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von [[Goethe]] </Ref> becomes rigorous then it becomes yagâtum = Hebrew yagon, "sorrow."

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=== Mac ===

The first place we see the Hebrew word ''mac'' (MemSamech(מַס))<Ref name="1mac">'''(1) ''mas''' oved'' ([[Genesis 49]]:10; [[Joshua 16]]:10, etc.; "compulsory labor"), and sometimes mas alone (e.g., [[1 Kings 4]]:6; 5:27). This expression is '''derived from [[Merchants of men|Canaanite]] ''massu'', "corvée worker,"''' attested at *El-Amarna[''eastern side of the Nile River, ... [[temples]], government establishments, utilitarian facilities such as grain silos''] and *Alalakh[Bronze Age [[city-state]] ]. A Hebrew seal dating from the seventh century b.c.e. reads "belonging to Pelaiah who is in charge of the ''mas''." </Ref> is [[Genesis 49]]:15:  
: "And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto [[tribute]] <04522>."<Ref name="mac22">{{04522}}</Ref>

The meaning of this verse concerning Issachar is reflected in the commentaries. ''Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges'' state that "Issachar was ready to kneel, and bear any heavy burden, for the sake of a quiet life in a fertile land." and goes on to say "Issachar is reproached for being ready to undertake forced labour, and so to acknowledge the Canaanites as his overlords." While, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament state, "Like an idle beast of burden, he would rather submit to the yoke and be forced to do the work of a slave, than risk his possessions and his peace in the struggle for liberty. To bend the shoulder to the yoke, to come down to carrying burdens and become a mere serf, was unworthy of Israel, the nation of God that was called to rule..." In truth the nation was called to be a [[priest]] to all nations, setting an example as to [[The Way]] of the [[Kingdom of God]].


It appears throughout the Old Testament in one form or another dozens of times.<Ref>[[Exodus 1]]:11  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters <04522> to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
: [[Deuteronomy 20]]:11  And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries <04522> unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
: [[Joshua 16]]:10  And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute <04522>.
: [[Joshua 17]]:13  Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute <04522>; but did not utterly drive them out.
: [[Judges 1]]:28  And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute <04522>, and did not utterly drive them out.
: [[Judges 1]]:30  Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries <04522>.
: [[Judges 1]]:33  Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries <04522> unto them.
: [[Judges 1]]:35  But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries <04522>.
: [[2 Samuel 20]]:24  And Adoram [was] over the tribute <04522>: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder:
: [[1 Kings 4]]:6  And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute <04522>.
: [[1 Kings 5]]:13  And king Solomon raised a levy <04522> out of all Israel; and the levy <04522> was thirty thousand men. 14  And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and Adoniram [was] over the levy <04522>.
: [[1 Kings 9]]:15  And this [is] the reason of the levy <04522> which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
: [[1 Kings 9]]:21  Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute <04522> of bondservice unto this day.
: [[1 Kings 12]]:18  Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the tribute <04522>; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
: [[2 Chronicles 8]]:8  [But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute <04522> until this day.
: [[2 Chronicles 10]]:18  Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the tribute <04522>; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to [his] chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
: [[Esther 10]]:1  And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute <04522> upon the land, and [upon] the isles of the sea.
: [[Proverbs 12]]:24  The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute <04522>.
: [[Isaiah 31]]:8  Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited <04522>.
: [[Lamentations 1]]:1  How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary <04522>!</Ref>

=== Cebel ===

A less common word is ''cebel''<Ref name="cebel">{{05447}}</Ref> (סֵבֶל‎) appearing three times in the bible<Ref>[[1 Kings 11]]:28  And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge <05447> of the house of Joseph.
: [[Nehemiah 4]]:17  They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens <05447>, with those that laded, [every one] with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a weapon.
: [[Psalms 81]]:6  I removed his shoulder from the burden <05447>: his hands were delivered from the pots.</Ref> said to mean merely a ''burden''. There are several words that depend on the same letters SamechBeitLamed and are given several other Strong's numbers. 

There is the verb ''to bear a load'' or just ''labor''.<Ref name="cabal">{{05445}}</Ref> which appears 8 times.<Ref>: [[Genesis 49]]:15  And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear <05445>, and became a servant unto tribute.
: [[Psalms 144]]:14  [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labour <05445>; [that there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.
: [[Ecclesiastes 12]]:5  Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden <05445>, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
: [[Isaiah 46]]:4  And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry <05445> [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry <05445>, and will deliver [you].
: [[Isaiah 46]]:7  They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry <05445> him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
: [[Isaiah 53]]:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried <05445> our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
: [[Isaiah 53]]:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear <05445> their iniquities.
: [[Lamentations 5]]:7  Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne <05445> their iniquities.</Ref>

There is the Aramaic verb ''cëbal''  (סְבַל)<Ref name="cëbal">{{05446}}</Ref> which we see in Ezra concerning building the foundation of the house of God by a decree of Cyrus the king with <Ref>[[Ezra 6]]:3  In the first year of Cyrus the king [the same] Cyrus the king made a decree [concerning] the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid <[[05446]]>; the height thereof threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof threescore cubits;</Ref>

There is ''cobel'' [[05448]] also spelled סֹבֶל‎<Ref name="cobel">{{05448}}</Ref> in Hebrew and again said to mean ''burden'' and appears three times in Isaiah.<Ref>[[Isaiah 9]]:4  For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden <05448>, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
: [[Isaiah 10]]:27  And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden <05448> shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
: [[Isaiah 14]]:25  That I will break the [[Assyria]]n in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden <05448> depart from off their shoulders.</Ref>

There is ''cabbal'' [[05449]] also spelled סֹבֶל‎<Ref name="cabbal">{{05449}}</Ref> which appears 5 times<Ref>: [[1 Kings 5]]:15  And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens <05449>, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
: [[2 Chronicles 2]]:2  And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens <05449>, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
: [[2 Chronicles 2]]:18  And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens <05449>, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
: [[2 Chronicles 34]]:13  Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens <05449>, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the [[Levites]] [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.
: [[Nehemiah 4]]:10  And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens <05449> is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.</Ref> beginning when Solomon was creating a corvee.

There is also the noun cëbalah [[05450]] סְבָלָה<Ref name="cëbalah">{{05450}}</Ref> which they admit means forced labor and appear six times.<Ref>Exodus 1:11  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens <05450>. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
: Exodus 2:11  And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens <05450>: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
: Exodus 5:4  And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens <05450>. 5  And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their burdens <05450>. 6  Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens <05450> of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7  And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens <05450> of the Egyptians.</Ref>

The word is not originally Hebrew but is common in the tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets written in the Akkadian-language documents from Mari which date from the Old Babylonian period.<Ref name="2cebel">'''(2) ''sevel''  or ''cebel''  (= Akk. sablum)''', a term found in the Mari documents[The Mari or ''Maʾeri'' documents'',  20,000 cuneiform tablets, give information about the earliest government, its customs, and people. More than 3000 are letters, the remainder includes administrative, economic, and judicial texts.''] (18th century b.c.e.). Its particularized meaning is a labor unit for emergency use. It appears three times in the Bible, [[1 Kings 11]]:28; [[Psalms 81]]:7; and [[Nehemiah 4]]:11. Cognate nouns from the same stem are also found in scripture: ''sivlot'' ("burdens": [[Exodus 1]]:11; [[Exodus 2]]:11; [[Exodus 5]]:4–5; [[Exodus 6]]:6–7); sabbal ("burden-bearer": [[1 Kings 5]]:29; [[2 Chronicles 2]]:1, 17; [[2 Chronicles 34]]:13); subbolo ("his burden": [[Isaiah 9]]:3; [[Isaiah 10]]:27; [[Isaiah 14]]:25).</Ref> 



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===  Perekh ===

The third word is '''perekh''' (פֶרֶךְ)<Ref name="perek>{{06531}}</Ref>‎  is considered to be a term for '''[[force]]d labor'''<Ref name="3perekh">'''(3) perekh''', sometimes said to be a term, Mesopotamian by origin, for '''[[force]]d labor'''; but its general meaning in the [[Bible]] seems to be ''rigour''and ''cruelty''.<Ref>[[Exodus 1]]:13  And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour <06531>: 14  And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour <06531>.
: [[Leviticus 25]]:43  Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour <06531>; but shalt fear thy God.
: [[Leviticus 25]]:46  And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour <06531>.
: [[Leviticus 25]]:53  [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour <06531> over him in thy sight.
: [[Ezekiel 34]]:4  The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty <06531> have ye ruled them.</Ref>

Some believe that at first only foreign elements in the country were obliged to submit to corvée labor citing [[1 Kings 9]]:20–22; [[2 Chronicles 8]]:7–9). They even claimed "only later was Solomon forced to demand compulsory labor from the population to carry out the vast building projects he had undertaken."


But is clear that any form of [[corvee]] or forced labor is contrary to the teachings of the Bible.<Ref>: [[Exodus 22]]:21  Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
: [[Exodus 23]]:9  Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
: [[Jeremiah 7]]:6  [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
: [[Zechariah 7]]:10  And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
: [[Malachi 3]]:5  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.</Ref>



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Some will say that Jeroboam was the first Israelite king to be the head of [[Corvee]] system when he sets up rival [[cult]] in Dan and Bethel when he sets up ''golden calves''<Ref>[[2 Kings 10]]:29  Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
: 2 Chronicles 13:8  And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.</Ref>; [[Ahijah]] rejects him.

But in  [[1 Kings 11]] we see at the end of the life of [[King Solomon]] had this same sin and was warned by the Prophet [[Ahijah]] that as punishment for imposing a [[corvee]] upon the people the Kingdom would be split losing rulership over most of the Tribes of Israel. They would be taken away from his descendants ([[1 Kings 11]]: 11-13) when they would go back to their [[Tents and Cities|own tents]].

== The Corvee of Solomon ==

: "Solomon could not have built on the scale he did with the resources ordinarily at the command of a free ruler. Accordingly we find that one of the institutions fostered by him was the [[corvee]], or forced labor. No doubt something of the kind always had existed ([[Joshua 9]]:21-27) and still exists in all despotic governments. Thus the people of a village will be called on to repair the neighboring roads, especially when the Pasha is making a progress in the neighborhood. But Solomon made the thing permanent and national ([[1 Kings 5]]:13-15; [[1 Kings 9]]:15). The immediate purpose of the levy was to supply laborers for work in the Lebanon in connection with his building operations. Thus 30,000 men were raised and drafted, 10,000 at a time, to the Lebanon, where they remained for a month, thus having two months out of every three at home. But even when the immediate cause had ceased, the practice once introduced was kept up and it became one of the chief grievances which levi to the dismemberment of the kingdom ([[1 Kings 12]]:18, Adoram = Adoniram; compare [[2 Samuel 20]]:24), for hitherto the [[corvee]] had been confined to foreign slaves taken in war ([[1 Kings 9]]:21). It is said the higher posts were reserved for Israelites, the laborers being foreigners ([[1 Kings 9]]:22), that is, the Israelites acted as foremen. Some of the foreign slaves seem to have formed a guild in connection with the Temple which lasted down to the time of the exile ([[Ezra 2]]:55-57; [[Nehemiah 7]]:57-59)."<Ref> [https://www.internationalstandardbible.com/S/solomon.html International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Online]</Ref>

This creation of a [[corvee]] where the people become "bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water"<Ref>[[Joshua 9]]:23  Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being [[corvee|bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water]] for the house of my God.</Ref> is contrary to the [[kingdom of God]] and required people making a [[leagues|league]] or covenant<Ref name="makeno">{{makeno}}</Ref>  with rulers who [[exercise authority]] one over the other. yet we see the spirit of it in many stories of the Bible. 

: [[Deuteronomy 29]]:11  Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

: [[2 Chronicles 2]]:17  And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

: [[2 Chronicles 2]]:18  And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

: [[Joshua 9]]:15 ¶  And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

Later, in [[Ezra]] the people will return to the location of Jerusalem and make an attempt to restore the kingdom and a temple at Jerusalem.


{{#ev:youtube|Vuz-hFKM_Ts|320|right|[[Employ]] vs Enslave, SS  Video Series 7-10 7:28}}<Br>

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“Whatever day makes man a [[employ|slave]], takes half his worth away.” Homer - Odyssey. Bk.XVII. L.392. Pope’s trans.<Br>
But this would mean, '''“Whatever day takes half his worth away, makes a man a slave.”'''
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== Social insurance ==

In order to get people to sign up for a corvee system there usually needs to be the appearance of an advantage to the members.

Social insurance was not an American invention. For the most part, it was a Continental innovation, appearing first in Europe in the late 19th century. some 20 nations around the world already had such a program in place, and another 30 or more had introduced at least one other social insurance program. Contributory Social Insurance programs first began as early as 1900 in parts of Australia. thy were limited in scope until the late 1920s.

This new idea of a government run [[social security]] system began in Austria shortly after the 1938 Anschluss thanks to Hitler's progressive approach. In America a similar system was established by [[FDR|President Roosevelt]] on August 14, 1935. Thousands of years earlier the [[Pharaoh]] and Joseph set up a similar system in [[Egypt]]. That system allowed all the citizens of a country to literally be '''[[Employ]]ed''' by the State. In Egypt Joseph limited the share of labor that the state could take to only 1/5 of the annual labor of the people and it was called the [[bondage of Egypt]]. That amounted to 20% of an individuals labor was taken from the people to support the [[welfare]] system provided by the State.

Some times there is a famine and to get help a ruler will set up a system like that in [[Egypt]] set up by Joseph for the [[Pharaoh]]. He put a ceiling limit of 20%. Other systems are not limited as to the amount and some systems borrow what is needed and the people may become a [[surety]] for the debt.

== No value ==

In Egypt gold was removed from the people and they used something as money that had no value except within their system. The Spartan also saw private wealth as the enemy of the state and only had lead money. The people needed to be in debt with no accumulation of real wealth or [[real money]] where they might be able to pay their debt and buy their freedom. They could have [[Legal title|legal tender but not lawful money]].

The move to a fiat monetary economy and modern ''federal employee'' identification number makes it possible to have a more diversified work force. Instead of moving people to a work camp of government workers all workers labor at their regular job under the authority of someone who as a Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN). That employer sends the funds that they could have been paid to the laborer to the Federal government. The value of his labor is diverted by federal employers so that if an individual works 10 hours, they will only be paid for some of those hours. Other term for this may include [[Social Security]] tax, income tax, or[[tribute]].

In this way everyone works at their regular jobs without pay for a period of time each hour of each day and what would have gone into their pockets now is, in theory, sent to fund the government in the construction of infrastructure or for providing other government services. In this way the modern tax system more closely resembles the corvee systems of unpaid labor imposed by the state on classes within society.

In the modern times since almost all governments borrow their operating funds more often what is taken from its members is only used to pay the interest on the staggering and an ever increasing debt of the government. 

So, because the government pays for services provided for with borrowed funds the worker is actually perpetually working merely to pay the interest on ever loans from "the bankers' banker", like the [[Federal Reserve]]. 

The [[Social Security|individual registered workers]] are actually employed in the [[bondage of Egypt]] without the 20% ceiling imposed by Joseph.

== Right to Labor ==

The people in [[Egypt]] no longer had an exclusive right to their labor for they have been [[employ]]ed by the State. In fact, as collateral for debt of the government, they were also [[surety]] for the debts of the government.

<blockquote>
'''“The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.”''' Henry George - Social Problems, Ch. V.
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There are a variety of ways people are persuaded to sign away their right to their labor. A number of philosophies and ideologies have arisen under different names but all of them take society in the same direction.

Marxism is a political and economic way of organizing society, where the workers own the means of production. [[Socialism]] is a way of organizing a society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the proletariat. Marx proposed that this was the next necessary step in the progress of history.

To say Marxism "evolved" is like saying a cancer evolved.
Man is an individual product of creation, and a singular means of production of creation with a natural right to choose.
But as a human, and a member of mankind, he must care about his fellowman's rights as much as his own.

Marx summarized his philosophy in the simple phrase: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

The question remains who decides the “from” and who should decide the legitimacy of a “need”?

Since, “Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing”, then you cannot have Marxism unless you take choice from the individual, making the man less a person and more a thing.

Marxism by its nature is the end of the natural right to choose and freedom itself. In Marxism man becomes an instrument, a thing and little more than a means of production and a resource.

It is bad enough in the nature of Marxism a man looses his liberty but in his desire to benefit at his comrades expense he also forfeits his soul with the loss of his humanity.

Marxism, [[Communism]], [[Socialism]] and other economic and political systems depend for their legitimacy on some of the same arguments of justification.

By their nature the must take some of the power of choice away from the individual as we can see in the summary of the Marxists ideology:

*  “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Man in his natural state may live by, “From each according to his ability and his free choice, to each according to his needs according to love and mercy of the individual.”

By contrast, [[socialism]] in theory is based on the idea that people will be compensated at some future date based on their level of individual contribution to the economy. I truth that is not the way the system are created.

Like the [[Pharaoh]] in an age gone by these systems inevitably require people to make bricks with little or no straw.<Ref>Exodus 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.</Ref>

These system and the men who rule in them call themselves [[benefactors]] but exercise authority one over the other. The [[free bread]] they provide will make the people [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]]. The [[warnings]] by [[Polybius|historians]] and [[prophets]] are abundant but the people return to [[the Mire]].