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Leviticus 25:44
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
Leviticus 25:44 · Berean Standard Bible
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Leviticus 25:44 in other translations
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
"'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
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In context
41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
42 Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
45 You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
46 You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
47 If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,
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