American King James Version
"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. "
— Leviticus 25:44, American 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.”
“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. ”
“"'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.”
““‘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.”
“Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:”
“But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.”
“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.”
And then shall he depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as slaves.
You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.
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.
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your slaves for ever: but over your brothers the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor. ¶
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him wax poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger’s family: