Leviticus 25:43
Don't treat them with brutality. Have respect for your God.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
In Context
44Buy your male and female slaves from the surrounding nations.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But because the midwives revered God, they didn't do what the king of Egypt had ordered. They let the boys live as well.
Exodus 2:23Years later, the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites were still groaning under their hard labor. Their cries for help because of their hardship reached God.
Exodus 3:9Listen! The cries of the Israelites have reached me, and I have seen how badly the Egyptians are mistreating them.
Leviticus 25:17Don't exploit one another, but have respect for your God, because I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 25:53They are to live with their foreign owner just like a paid worker, hired from year to year, but see to it that the owner doesn't treat him brutally.
2 Chronicles 28:10Now you're planning to turn these people from Judah and Jerusalem into slaves. But aren't you also guilty of sinning against the Lord your God?
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 →