Leviticus 25:44
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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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
And as for thy bondmen,{H5650} and thy bondmaids,{H519} whom thou shalt have; of the nations{H1471} that are round about{H5439} you, of them shall ye buy{H7069} bondmen{H5650} and bondmaids.{H519}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Both thy bondmen{H5650}, and thy bondmaids{H519}, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen{H1471} that are round about{H5439} you; of them shall ye buy{H7069}{(H8799)} bondmen{H5650} and bondmaids{H519}.
Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)
Yf thou wilt haue bondseruauntes and maydens thou shalt bye them of the heythen that are rounde aboute you
Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf thou wylt haue bode seruauntes and maydens, thou shalt bye them of the Heithen, that are rounde aboute you:
Geneva Bible (1560)
Thy bond seruant also, & thy bond maid, which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye bye seruants and maydes.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Thy bondseruaunt and thy bondemayde which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye purchase seruauntes and maydes.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
"'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
`And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast `are' of the nations who `are' round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,
American Standard Version (1901)
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
American Standard Version (1901)
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.
World English Bible (2000)
"'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
Referenced Verses
- 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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45 Moreover 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.
46 And 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.
47 And 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 25:38-436 verses81%
38 I 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.
39 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee:
41 And 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.
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.
- Exod 12:44-452 verses76%
44 But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.
45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
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17 Then 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.
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2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, without paying anything.
- Isa 14:2-32 verses74%
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.
3 And 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,
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14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:
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16 And 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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53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.
54 And 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.
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6 And 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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14 You 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:
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9 That 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.
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15 You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you:
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22 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
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50 And 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.
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14 You 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.
15 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.
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16 But 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.
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24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
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18 But 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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10 And 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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10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.
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12 You sell Your people for nothing and do not increase Your wealth by their price.
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14 At 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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4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
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5 Yet 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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14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
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12 And you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
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