Leviticus 25:46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁶ You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your fellow Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁶ And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁶ And you shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall you take your bondmen always, but over your brethren the Israelites you shall not rule one over another with harshness (severity, oppression).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

Common English Bible

⁴⁶ You can pass them on to your children as inheritance that they can own as permanent property. You can make these people work as slaves, but you must not rule harshly over your own people, the Israelites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁶ 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁶ And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.

Leviticus 25:46 Krydshenvisninger

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude

Isaiah 14:2

And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess the nations as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land; they will take captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them.

Leviticus 25:43

You shall not rule over them with harshness but shall fear your God.

Leviticus 25:45

You may also acquire them from among the aliens residing with you and from their families who are with you who have been born in your land; they may be your property.

Leviticus 25:47

“If resident aliens among you prosper, and if any of your kin fall into difficulty with one of them and sell themselves to an alien or to a branch of the alien’s family,