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

Moreover of the children of the strangers. — Besides the surrounding nations, the Hebrews are also permitted to obtain th…

Moreover, of the children of the strangers, that do sojourn
among you
The uncircumcised sojourners as …

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…