Leviticus 25:45-47
Legacy Standard Bible
45 And also you may acquire from the sons of the foreign residents who sojourn among you, from them and their families who are with you; as for those whom they have begotten in your land, they also may become your possession. 46 You may even give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. (A)But in respect to your brothers, the sons of Israel, you shall not have dominion over one another with brutality.
Kindness Toward a Poor Sojourner
47 ‘Now if the [a]means of a sojourner or of a foreign resident with you becomes sufficient, and a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a sojourner who resides with you or to the descendants of a sojourner’s family,
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