Leviticus 25:42

25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. ¹ 

Leviticus 25:44

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves ²  who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. ³ 

Leviticus 25:55

25:55 because the Israelites are my own servants; ⁴  they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ⁵  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ⁶ 

Leviticus 25:39

25:39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. ⁷ 

Leviticus 26:13

26:13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, ⁸  and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. ⁹ 

¹ tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

² tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

³ tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”

³ tn Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”

⁴ tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

⁵ tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

⁵ tn Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured servant.

⁶ tn Heb “from being to them slaves.”

⁷ tn In other words, to walk as free people and not as slaves. Cf. NIV “with (+ your CEV, NLT) heads held high”; NCV “proudly.”