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Leviticus 25:44
Leviticus 25:44 is verse 44 of Leviticus chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
“‘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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Leviticus 25:42–46 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 12:44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
Psalms 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
Revelation 2:26And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
Revelation 2:27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.