Leviticus 25:44 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁴ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.

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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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Leviticus 25:44 Cross References

Exodus 12:44

but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.

Exodus 21:21

But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.

Leviticus 25:43

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

Leviticus 25:45

You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.