“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

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

I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”