Law regarding the slave wages or salary.

Law regarding the slave wages or salary.

"Adult workers received standard rations of 30 to 40 pints of barley per month while children received 20"; the barley was distributed as rations to about 200 workmen and their children. This scribe was clearly highly trained in this art. From Girsu, Mesopotamia, Iraq. This edict is by King Uruinimgina (Urugakina) King of city-states of Lagash and Girsu, from 2351-2342 BCE. (The British Museum, Iraq).

Though this law regarding the slave wages was prior or belong to the time of our Patriarch Abraham, probably in the time of BC 2100 (?) and would have been in effect at his time. However this cuneiform tablet comes from Girsu, and Abraham was a resident of Ur. I doubt that this edict has any effect in Ur is uncertain. Any how the Code of Ur-Nammu (BC 2100 or 2050) and the Code of Hammurabi (BC 1755 or 1750) belong to later period from the time of Abraham.

To conclude, we read from the Bible, Genesis 14:14, "he called out the 318 trained men born in his household..". If Abraham had 318 fighting men in his household, how much more slaves does he had other than them would be a great number. And to provide the needs for them according to this edict is a great task. These band of slaves with their master travelled all the way from Ur to the Promised Land. In this elapsed time, the providence is really a miracle and God had fulfilled his promise. Can we imagine the tonnes of grain needed to the whole migration ? What a great Provider we have, isn't it? Yes, He is Jehovah Jirah our Provider. Later Abraham, He provided Manna, the heavenly food, for more than six lakhs people (Exodus 12:37-38) who came out with Moses from Egypt until they reached the Promised land. And when Jesus commissioned His disciples to go two by two to preach the Gospel, He said that they should not carry Bread included among other things (Mark 6:7) with them. It is like God promising them, I am the one who provides you with your needs. Jesus says in Matthew 6:26, "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" Let's align ourselves in the faith of our patriarch Abraham and rely on the One who called us for His purpose, for He will do it (1Thessalonians 5:24).