Imamat 25:42-44

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  25:43 You must not rule over him harshly, ²  but you must fear your God.

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves ³  who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. ⁴ 

[25:42]  ¹ tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

[25:43]  ² tn Heb “You shall not rule in him in violence”; cf. NASB “with severity”; NIV “ruthlessly.”

[25:44]  ³ tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

[25:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”