Leviticus 25:39
“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
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Cross references
- Exodus 21:2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
- 1 Kings 9:22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- Leviticus 25:46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.