Leviticus 25:39 - New Revised Standard Version

³⁹ If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ And if your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondman (a slave not eligible for redemption),

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.

Common English Bible

³⁹ If one of your fellow Israelites faces financial difficulty with you and sells themselves to you, you must not make him work as a slave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ If thy brother constrained by poverty sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.

Leviticus 25:39 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 9:22

But of the Israelites Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, and the commanders of his chariotry and cavalry.

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

2 Chronicles 28:10

Now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. But what have you except sins against the Lord your God?

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 21:2

When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt.

Exodus 22:3

If a thief is found breaking in, and is beaten to death, no bloodguilt is incurred;

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall make slaves of them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

Jeremiah 30:8

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will break the yoke from off his neck, and I will burst his bonds, and strangers shall no more make a servant of him.

Jeremiah 34:14

“Every seventh year each of you must set free any Hebrews who have been sold to you and have served you six years; you must set them free from your service.” But your ancestors did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Jeremiah 34:8

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

Jeremiah 34:9

that all should set free their Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should hold another Judean in slavery.

Leviticus 25:46

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.

Matthew 18:25

and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and payment to be made.