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Leviticus 25:46 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 25 · verse 46
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.Leviticus 25:46 · King James Version
Leviticus 25:46 in context
44Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
47And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
48After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- inheritancenâchalto inherit mode of descent), or to occupyH5157 →
- possessionʼăchuzzâhsomething seizedH272 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- brethrenʼâcha brother )H251 →
- inherityârashto occupyH3423 →
- bondmenʻâbadto workH5647 →
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We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God's sons, his first-born. Now the law is, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 39-55