Leviticus 25:44
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.”
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“Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 · Public Domain“`And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast <FI>are<Fi> of the nations who <FI>are<Fi> round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 25:44 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 12:44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- Psalms 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 14:2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
- Revelation 2:26And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
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