Leviticus 25:46
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 25:43 : 43 You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
- Isa 14:2 : 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.
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- Lev 25:39-457 verses84%
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.
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.
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.
- Lev 25:53-553 verses77%
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.
- Isa 14:2-32 verses77%
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,
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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,
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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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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).
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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.
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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.
- 1 Kgs 9:21-222 verses72%
21Their descendants remained in the land(the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.
22Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.
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22You 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.
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2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
- 1 Sam 8:16-172 verses72%
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.
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13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
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12I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.
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25They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it– they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.
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10And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
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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.”
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24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.
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51After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.
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23But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
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17He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.
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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.
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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.”
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14You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.
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24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
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9Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.
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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.
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7If 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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10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
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14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
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4You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”
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6But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
- Deut 28:31-322 verses70%
31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
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20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.
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6and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
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4And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
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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.
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44He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,