Leviticus 25:46 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | NASB

You may also pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

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

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

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

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

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

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

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…