Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. New Living Translation “However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. English Standard Version As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. Berean Standard Bible Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. King James Bible 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. New King James Version And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. New American Standard Bible As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. NASB 1995 ‘As for your male and female slaves whom you may have— you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. NASB 1977 ‘As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. Legacy Standard Bible As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the nations that are around you. Amplified Bible As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. Christian Standard Bible Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves. 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. Contemporary English Version If you want slaves, buy them from other nations English Revised Version And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. GOD'S WORD® Translation "You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you. Good News Translation If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you. International Standard Version "As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations. Majority Standard Bible Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. NET Bible "'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. New Heart 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. Webster's Bible Translation Both thy bond-men, and thy bond-maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are around you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. World English Bible “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd your manservant and your handmaid whom you have [are] from the nations who [are] around you; you buy manservant and handmaid from them, 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, Smith's Literal Translation And thy servant and thy maid which shall be to thee, from the nations which are round about you, from them ye shall buy servant and maid. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleLet your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you. Catholic Public Domain Version Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you, New American Bible The male and female slaves that you possess—these you shall acquire from the nations round about you. New Revised Standard Version As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleBut as for your male servants and your female servants whom you may have from among the people that are round about you, of them shall you buy bondmen and bondwomen. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And from your Servants and your Maids who will be yours from the nations that are around you, you shall buy Servants and Maids. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Brenton Septuagint Translation And whatever number of men-servants and maid-servants thou shalt have, thou shalt purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about thee. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Redemption of Bondmen…43You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God. 44Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. 45You 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.… Cross References Exodus 21:2-6 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything. / If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him. / If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. ... Deuteronomy 15:12-18 If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free. / And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed. / You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you. ... 1 Kings 9:20-21 As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)— / their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. Nehemiah 5:5 We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.” Jeremiah 34:8-17 After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD / that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. / So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them, ... Genesis 17:12-13 Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring. / Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant. Genesis 37:28 So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt. Genesis 47:19-25 Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.” / So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s, / and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other. ... 2 Chronicles 8:7-8 As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)— / their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. Isaiah 14:1-2 For 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. / The 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. Joel 3:6-8 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland. / Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads. / I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken. Matthew 18:25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned. Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, John 8:34-36 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. / A slave does not remain in the house forever, but a son remains forever. / So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. Romans 6:16-18 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness? / But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed. / You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Treasury of Scripture Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall you buy slaves and bondmaids. Exodus 12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. Psalm 2:8,9 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession… Isaiah 14:1,2 For 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… Jump to Previous Acquire Bondmaids Bondmen Bond-Men Buy Female Handmaid Handmaids Heathen Male Man-Servant Mayest Men-Servants Nations Pagan Property Round Servants Slaves Women-ServantsJump to Next Acquire Bondmaids Bondmen Bond-Men Buy Female Handmaid Handmaids Heathen Male Man-Servant Mayest Men-Servants Nations Pagan Property Round Servants Slaves Women-ServantsLeviticus 25 1. the Sabbath of the seventh year8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year 14. Of oppression 18. A blessing of obedience 23. The redemption of land 29. Of houses 35. Compassion to the poor 39. The usage of bondmen 47. The redemption of servants Your male and female slaves The Hebrew words used here are "עֶבֶד" (eved) for male slaves and "אָמָה" (amah) for female slaves. In the ancient Near Eastern context, slavery was a common practice, and these terms were used to denote individuals who were in servitude. From a conservative Christian perspective, it is important to understand that the Bible's mention of slavery does not equate to an endorsement of the practice as it was known in more recent history. Instead, it reflects the socio-economic realities of the time. The Bible provides regulations that were intended to protect and provide for slaves, recognizing their humanity and dignity. are to come from the nations around you from them you may purchase slaves Of the heathen that are round about you.--These are to be purchased to do the necessary work. The Israelites, however, were restricted to the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Edomites, and the Syrians, who were their neighbours, but were not permitted to buy any slaves from the seven nations who were in the midst of them, and whom they were ordered to destroy (Deuteronomy 20:16-18). Verses 44-46. - Slavery is not forbidden in respect to non-Israelites. The world was not yet ready for it, as it was not ready in the days of St. Paul.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your maleוְעַבְדְּךָ֥ (wə·‘aḇ·də·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5650: Slave, servant and female slaves וַאֲמָתְךָ֖ (wa·’ă·mā·ṯə·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 519: A maidservant, female slave shall come יִהְיוּ־ (yih·yū-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be from מֵאֵ֣ת (mê·’êṯ) Preposition-m | Direct object marker Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case the nations הַגּוֹיִ֗ם (hag·gō·w·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts around you; סְבִיבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (sə·ḇî·ḇō·ṯê·ḵem) Adverb | second person masculine plural Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around from them מֵהֶ֥ם (mê·hem) Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They you may purchase תִּקְנ֖וּ (tiq·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 7069: To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own slaves. עֶ֥בֶד (‘e·ḇeḏ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5650: Slave, servant Links Leviticus 25:44 NIVLeviticus 25:44 NLT Leviticus 25:44 ESV Leviticus 25:44 NASB Leviticus 25:44 KJV Leviticus 25:44 BibleApps.com Leviticus 25:44 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 25:44 Chinese Bible Leviticus 25:44 French Bible Leviticus 25:44 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 25:44 As for your male and your female (Le Lv Lev.) |
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