Leviticus 25:44
Good News Translation
If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you.

New Revised Standard Version
As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves.

Contemporary English Version
If you want slaves, buy them from other nations

New American Bible
The male and female slaves that you possess—these you shall acquire from the nations round about you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:

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

Exodus 12:44 But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

Psalm 2:8,9 Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. . . .

Isaiah 14:1,2 Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob. . . .

Revelation 2:26,27 And he that shall overcome and keep my works unto the end, I will give him power over the nations. . . .

Context
Redemption of Bondmen
43Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God. 44Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:45And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:…
Cross References
Exodus 21:21
But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

Leviticus 25:43
Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:45
And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:

Leviticus 25:43
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