KJV King James 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.
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Leviticus 25:44
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
WEB World English Bible
“‘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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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,
Surrounding context — Leviticus 25
41 And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42 For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 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.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
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וְעַבְדְּךָ֥H5650 · e.vedservant/slaveוַאֲמָתְךָ֖H519 · a.mahmaidservantאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichיִהְיוּ־H1961 · ha.yahto beלָ֑ךְH9032 · khyouמֵאֵ֣תH854 · etwithהַגּוֹיִ֗םH1471 · goynationאֲשֶׁר֙H834 · a.sherwhichסְבִיבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םH5439 · sa.vivaroundמֵהֶ֥םH9038 · hemthemתִּקְנ֖וּH7069 · qa.nahto buyעֶ֥בֶדH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveוְאָמָֽה׃H519 · a.mahmaidservant
Cross-references
Exodus 12:44But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.Psalm 2:8-9Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.Isaiah 14:1-2For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.Revelation 2:26-27And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
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