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Leviticus 25:43

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.

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Leviticus 25:43 in other translations

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Leviticus 25:43 · World English Bible

Leviticus 25:43 in context

  1. 41then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
  2. 42For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
  3. 43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.
  4. 44And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
  5. 45Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.