Leviticus 25:44

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“‘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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 12:44 : 44 But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.
  • Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property. 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
  • Isa 14:1-2 : 1 The LORD will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob. 2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Israel will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the LORD’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
  • Rev 2:26-27 : 26 And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations– 27 he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:45-47
    3 verses
    86%

    45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

    47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

  • Lev 25:38-43
    6 verses
    81%

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

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

    43You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

  • Exod 12:44-45
    2 verses
    76%

    44But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

    45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

  • Deut 15:17
    74%

    17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).

  • Exod 21:2
    74%

    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

  • Isa 14:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Israel will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the LORD’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

    3When the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

  • Lev 25:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

    15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

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

    16He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.

    17He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

  • Deut 28:68
    73%

    68Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that 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%

    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

    54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

    55because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 25:6
    73%

    6You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat– you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

  • Deut 24:14
    73%

    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

    10All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

    11But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.

  • Deut 15:12
    72%

    12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

  • Deut 23:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

    16Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

  • Deut 24:22
    72%

    22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.

  • Lev 25:50
    72%

    50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

  • Deut 15:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

    15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

  • Jer 34:16
    71%

    16But then you turned right around and showed that you did not honor me. Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again.

  • Exod 21:7
    71%

    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

  • Lev 25:24
    71%

    24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

  • Deut 21:14
    71%

    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Deut 24:18
    71%

    18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    70%

    10And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before 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, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

  • Ps 44:12
    70%

    12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

  • Jer 34:14
    70%

    14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

  • Exod 21:4
    70%

    4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

  • Deut 5:14
    70%

    14but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the resident foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

  • Deut 16:12
    70%

    12Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
    69%

    14He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.