Leviticus 25:44

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Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

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  • Exod 12:44 : 44 But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it after you have circumcised him.
  • Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession. 9 You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.
  • Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will again choose Israel, and He will settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and be united with the house of Jacob. 2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female servants. They will take captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
  • Rev 2:26-27 : 26 To the one who is victorious and does my works to the end, I will give authority over the nations— 27 They will shepherd them with an iron rod and shatter them like pottery—

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:45-47
    3 verses
    86%

    45You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your land, and they will become your property.

    46You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites harshly.

    47If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

  • Lev 25:38-43
    6 verses
    81%

    38I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

    39If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

    40They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

    41Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors.

    42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

    43Do not rule over them harshly, but fear your God.

  • Exod 12:44-45
    2 verses
    76%

    44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it after you have circumcised him.

    45A temporary resident or hired servant may not eat of it.

  • Deut 15:17
    74%

    17then take an awl and pierce their ear to the door, and they will become your servant for life. You shall do the same for your female servant.

  • Exod 21:2
    74%

    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he shall go free, without any payment.

  • Isa 14:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female servants. They will take captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

    3On the day the LORD gives you rest from your pain, your turmoil, and the harsh labor imposed on you,

  • Lev 25:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14If you sell land to your neighbor or buy land from your neighbor, do not take advantage of one another.

    15You are to buy from your neighbor based on the number of years since the Jubilee, and they are to sell to you according to the number of harvest years.

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and use them for his own work.

    17He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

  • Deut 28:68
    73%

    68The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, in the way I said you would never see again. There, you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

  • Lev 25:53-55
    3 verses
    73%

    53They are to be treated as a yearly hired worker while with their buyer, and they must not be ruled over harshly in your sight.

    54If they are not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee.

    55For the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 25:6
    73%

    6During this Sabbath of the land, all its produce will be food for you—for yourself, your servants, your hired workers, and the resident foreigners who live among you,

  • Deut 24:14
    73%

    14Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9Each was to free his Hebrew servants, both male and female, so that no one would enslave a fellow Hebrew, a fellow Jew.

    10And all the officials and all the people who entered into the covenant agreed to set free their male and female slaves, so that they would no longer enslave them. They obeyed and set them free.

    11But afterward they turned back and took back the men and women they had freed, and forced them to become slaves again.

  • Deut 15:12
    72%

    12If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year, you must set them free.

  • Deut 23:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies into your hands. Your camp must be holy so that He will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

    16Do not hand over a slave who has escaped from his master and taken refuge with you.

  • Deut 24:22
    72%

    22Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

  • Lev 25:50
    72%

    50They and their buyer are to calculate the time from the year they were sold to the Year of Jubilee. The price of their release shall be based on the number of years, like the wages of a hired worker.

  • Deut 15:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Provide them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

    15Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today.

  • Jer 34:16
    71%

    16But then you turned back and profaned my name. You took back the servants and maidservants whom you had set free, allowing them to go wherever they desired, and you brought them back into subjection to become your slaves again.

  • Exod 21:7
    71%

    7If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

  • Lev 25:24
    71%

    24In every part of the land that you own, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

  • Deut 21:14
    71%

    14But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

  • Deut 24:18
    71%

    18Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    70%

    10And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?

  • Exod 20:10
    70%

    10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor any foreigner residing within your gates.

  • Ps 44:12
    70%

    12You delivered us like sheep to be eaten and have scattered us among the nations.

  • Jer 34:14
    70%

    14At the end of seven years, each of you must set free your Hebrew brothers who have been sold to you and have served you for six years. You must release them to go free. But your ancestors did not obey me or pay attention to me.

  • Exod 21:4
    70%

    4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

  • Deut 5:14
    70%

    14But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your ox, your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the foreigner residing in your towns—so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

  • Deut 16:12
    70%

    12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these decrees.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
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    14He will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his officials.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be an inquiry, but they are not to be put to death because she had not been freed.