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44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you⁺, from whom you⁺ may purchase them. 45 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. 46 You⁺ may leave them to your⁺ sons after you⁺ to inherit as property; you⁺ can make them slaves for life. But as for your⁺ brothers, the Israelites (God prevails), no man may rule harshly over his brother. Leviticus 25:44-46, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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