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Leviticus 25:43-45
New English Translation
Leviticus 25:43-45
New English Translation
43 You must not rule over them harshly,[a] but you must fear your God.
44 “‘As for your male and female slaves[b] who may belong to you—you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.[c] 45 Also, you may buy slaves[d] from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are[e] with you, whom they have fathered in your land; they may become your property.
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- Leviticus 25:43 tn Heb “You shall not rule in him in violence”; cf. NASB “with severity”; NIV “ruthlessly.”
- Leviticus 25:44 tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.
- Leviticus 25:44 tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”
- Leviticus 25:45 tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.
- Leviticus 25:45 tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).
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