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Bible Gateway passage: Leviticus 25 - New Living Translation
The Sabbath Year - While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the LORD said to him, “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the LORD every seventh year. For six years you may plant your...
44 “However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. 45 You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, 46 passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.”
— New Living Translation
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The part before this talks about how fellow Israelites purchased as slaves are to be treated as workers and turned free the Year of Jubilee.
But from the above verses 44, 45, and 46, not the foreigners who were purchased as slaves.
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