Property in foreign slaves is distinctly permitted here. It was a patriarchal custom (Genesis 17:12). Such slaves might be captives tak…

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen. —Rather, As for your bondmen and…

Both your bond-men, and your bond-maids. What God here permits regarding strangers was everywhere customary among the Gentiles, namely, th…

Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, which you shall have ,
&c.] Such it seems were allowed them, if they had need…

A native Israelite, if sold for debt or for a crime, was to serve only six years and to go out free in the seventh. If he sold himself because of p…