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Leviticus 25:44
Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:
Leviticus 25:44 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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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.
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
“‘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.
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In context
41 And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.
42 For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.
43 Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.
44 Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:
45 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:
46 And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
47 If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:
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