Leviticus 25:45
Also 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.
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- Isa 56:3-6 : 3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of the LORD should say,‘The LORD will certainly exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say,‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’” 4 For this is what the LORD says:“For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant, 5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain. 6 As for foreigners who become followers of the LORD and serve him, who love the name of the LORD and want to be his servants– all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant–
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- Lev 25:39-446 verses86%
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.
40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
41 but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.
43 You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
44 “‘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.
- Lev 25:46-483 verses84%
46 You 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,
48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,
- Ezek 47:22-232 verses77%
22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Lev 25:13-164 verses76%
13 Release of Landed Property“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.
14 If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
15 You 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.
16 The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.
- Lev 25:23-253 verses76%
23 The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.
24 In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.
25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.
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6 You 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,
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5 “Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.
- Lev 19:33-342 verses73%
33 When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
34 The resident foreigner who lives with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
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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.
- Lev 25:53-553 verses73%
53 He 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.
54 If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
55 because 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 25:33-353 verses72%
33 Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem– the sale of a house which is his property in a city– must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.
34 Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.
35 Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.
- Exod 12:44-452 verses72%
44 But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.
45 A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.
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50 He 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.
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19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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14 You 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.
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44 He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
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3 You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
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28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
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15 One statute must apply to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike before the LORD.
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10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
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5 And 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.”
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22 There will be one regulation for you, whether a resident foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the LORD your God.’”
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49 The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the resident foreigner who lives among you.”
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9 “You must not oppress a resident foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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68 Then 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.”
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7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
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21 “You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.
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12 Release 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.
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20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.