Leviticus 25:44
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
In context
42 Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
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, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
Leviticus 25:44 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
- KJV 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.
- WEB 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.
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have — of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.