Leviticus 25:44

KJV1611 – Modern English

Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.

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  • Exod 12:44 : 44 But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.
  • Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
  • Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people will take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and maidservants: and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.
  • Rev 2:26-27 : 26 And he who overcomes, and keeps my works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— 27 'He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's vessels'—as I also have received from my Father;

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    45Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession.

    46And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.

    47And if a sojourner or stranger becomes rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

  • Lev 25:38-43
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    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.

    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

    40But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee:

    41And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

    42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

    43You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

  • Exod 12:44-45
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    44But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

    45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

  • Deut 15:17
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    17Then you shall take an awl, and pierce it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also unto your maidservant, you shall do likewise.

  • Exod 21:2
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    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, without paying anything.

  • Isa 14:2-3
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    2And the people will take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and maidservants: and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.

    3And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

  • Lev 25:14-15
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    14And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

    15According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you:

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
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    16And he will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

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  • Deut 28:68
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    68And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

  • Lev 25:53-55
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    53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

    54And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

    55For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

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    6And the sabbath of the land shall provide food for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who dwells with you,

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    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

  • Jer 34:9-11
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    9That every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should enslave them, a Jew his brother.

    10Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, and that none should enslave themselves anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

    11But afterward they turned and forced the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

  • Deut 15:12
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    12And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

  • Deut 23:15-16
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    15You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you:

    16He shall dwell with you, even among you, in that place which he chooses in one of your gates, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.

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    22And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

  • Lev 25:50
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    50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him.

  • Deut 15:14-15
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    14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

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  • Jer 34:16
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    16But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be your servants and your handmaids.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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    24And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

  • Deut 21:14
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    18But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this thing.

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    10And now you purpose to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen for yourselves, but are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?

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    12You sell Your people for nothing and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

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    14At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

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    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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