Leviticus 25:45

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“You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.”

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BSBPD

“You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who <FI>are<Fi> with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 25:45 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

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