A sojourner or stranger — Rather, a foreigner who has settled among you. See Leviticus 16:29, note; Exodus 20:10, note.

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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee. —A better rendering is: And if the hand of a stranger, and that a so…

And if a sojourner or a stranger. A caution is here introduced regarding the Israelites who had enslaved themselves to strangers. But by "…

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you
An uncircumcised one, as the Targums, a proselyte of the gate, who by…

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…