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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
LEV 25:40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
LEV 25:41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children
with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession
of his fathers shall he return.
LEV 25:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
LEV 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy
God.
LEV 25:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
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