Various cultures around the world had slaves, including those in the ancient Near East, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Babylon. The practice of slavery varied across cultures around the world. Most cultures have debt slavery, where people sold themselves into slavery to pay off debts, and some were made slaves by conquest. Some had chattel slavery, where people were treated like animals and kidnapped, but when most people think of this kind of slavery, they think of the transatlantic slave trade. The closest thing we see to ethnic-based enslavement in the Bible is when the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites. The Egyptians hated the Hebrews (foreigners) long before Moses was even born, according to Gen 43:32 and Gen 46:31-34, and they used their nationalism as justification for their mistreatment and enslavement of the Hebrews, according to Exodus 1:8-10.