You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property. Cross References Leviticus 25:44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. Leviticus 25:46 You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother. Treasury of Scripture Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. Isaiah 56:3-6 |