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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He may be redeemed again. —The law which applies to a heathen who sold himself to a Hebrew is reversed in this case. While the hea…

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again
Though an Heathen, sold to an Israelite, was to be a bondman for ever…

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…