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

And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children. —That is, they may appropriate them to themselves, as their …

And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children
after you
Which they migh…

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…