⁴⁴ And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

Mercy on Jacob

14 For the Lord ^(A)will have mercy on Jacob, and ^(B)will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. ^(C)The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. ² Then people will take them ^(D)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, ^(E)and rule over their oppressors.

⁴⁴ But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have ^(A)circumcised him, then he may eat it.

²⁶ And he who overcomes, and keeps ^(A)My works until the end, ^(B)to him I will give power over the nations—

as I also have received from My Father;