Catholic Public Domain Version
"Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you, "
— Leviticus 25:44, Catholic Public Domain 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 after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.
For these are my servants, and I led them away from the land of Egypt; let them not be sold into the condition of servitude.
Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.
Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,
and from the newcomers who sojourn with you, or who have been born from them in your land. These you shall have as servants,
and, by the right of inheritance, you shall transmit them to your posterity, and you shall possess them forever. But do not oppress your brothers, the sons of Israel, by power.
If the hand of a newcomer or a sojourner will have grown strong among you, and your brother, having become impoverished, will have sold himself to him, or to any of his stock,