Leviticus 25:44

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

Berean Standard Bible

In The 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.

In Context

43You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

45You 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.

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Cross References

Psalms 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

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.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:40-55

Oppression of Brethren Forbidden. ( b. c. 1490.) 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, which I brought… Read the whole commentary →

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