44Both 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.


In Context

41 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.

42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as slaves.

43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

44 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.

45 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.

46 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.

Leviticus 25:44 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:44Both 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:44" 'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:44Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:44And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:44And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:44And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:44Both 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:44|'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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:44And 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,