Leviticus 25:44 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ As for your bondmen and your bondmaids whom you may have, they shall be from the nations round about you, of whom you may buy bondmen and bondmaids.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ Regarding male or female slaves that you are allowed to have: You can buy a male or a female slave from the nations that are around you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,

Leviticus 25:44 Cross References

Exodus 12:44

but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

Exodus 21:21

Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

Leviticus 25:43

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but shalt fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:45

Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.