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Foreign-born male and female servants and their families work within a Bronze Age household and pass with the estate to the next generation, while Israelite brothers are explicitly treated without harsh domination. Portray every adult clothed, named by relationship through family groupings, and fully human. No slave market, chains, beating, sexualization, racial caricature, auction, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 25:44-46

Foreign servants under the stated law

Sabbath Years and Jubilee · Leviticus 25

Story guide: Foreign-born male and female servants and their families work within a Bronze Age household and pass with the estate to the next generation, while Israelite brothers are explicitly treated without harsh domination. Portray every adult clothed, named by relationship through family groupings, and fully human. No slave market, chains, beating, sexualization, racial caricature, auction, or visible deity.

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44As for your male servant and your female servant who may belong to you, from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy a male servant and a female servant.

45You may also buy from the sons of the sojourners who reside with you, and from their families who are with you, whom they have fathered in your land; and they shall become your possession.

46You may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession permanently; from them you may exact labor. But over your brothers, the sons of Israel, no man shall rule over his brother harshly.

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