Leviticus 25:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² For they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² For the Israelites are My servants; I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. [I Cor. 7:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁴² You must do this because these people are my servants—I brought them out of Egypt’s land. They must not be sold as slaves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.

Leviticus 25:42 Cross References

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

Leviticus 25:41

Then they and their children with them shall go out from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property.

Leviticus 25:43

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

Leviticus 25:55

For to me the Israelites are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Deuteronomy 15:13

And when you send a male slave out from you a free person, you shall not send him out empty-handed.