3 Mose 25:46

Elberfelder Bibel

und ihr möget sie euren Söhnen nach euch vererben, um sie als Eigentum zu besitzen. Diese möget ihr auf ewig dienen lassen; aber über eure Brüder, die Kinder Israel, sollt ihr nicht einer über den anderen herrschen mit Härte.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
und sollst sie vererben auf eure Kinder nach euch zum leibeigenen Besitz, daß sie euch ewiglich dienen. Aber über eure Brüder, die Kinder Israel, sollt ihr nicht, einer über den andern, mit Strenge herrschen!

Lutherbible (1912)
und sollt sie besitzen und eure Kinder nach euch zum Eigentum für und für; die sollt ihr leibeigene Knechte sein lassen. Aber von euren Brüdern, den Kindern Israel, soll keiner über den andern herrschen mit Strenge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And ye shall: Isaiah 14:2

they shall be your bondmen for ever: Heb. ye shall serve yourselves with them, Leviticus 25:39

ye shall not rule: Leviticus 25:43

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:60 - thy seed Exodus 1:14 - was with rigour Exodus 21:21 - General Job 31:13 - the cause

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you,.... Which they might leave them at their death to inherit, as they did their estates and lands; for such servants are, with the Jews y, said to be like immovable goods, as fields, vineyards,

to inherit [them for] a possession; as their property, as anything else that was bequeathed to hem, as negroes now are in our plantations abroad:

thy shall be your bondmen for ever; and not be released at the year jubilee, nor before nor after; unless they obtained their liberty, either by purchase, which they might make themselves, or by the means of others, or else by a writing under their master's hand dismissing them from his service z; or in case they were maimed by him, then he was obliged to let them go free, Exodus 21:26;

but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour; which repeated for the confirmation of it, and for the fuller explanation and description of the person not to be ruled over with rigour; and that it might be the more taken notice of, and to make them the more careful in the observance of it and though this peculiarly respects masters' treatment of their servants, yet Jarchi thinks it comprehends a prince over his people, and a king over his ministers, whom he may not rule with rigour.

y Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 3. z Misn. Kiddushin, ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Property in foreign slaves is here distinctly permitted. It was a patriarchal custom Genesis 17:12. Such slaves might be captives taken in war (Numbers 31:6 following; Deuteronomy 20:14), or those consigned to slavery for their crimes, or those purchased of foreign slave-dealers. The price of a slave is supposed to have varied from thirty to fifty shekels. See Leviticus 27:3-4, note; Exodus 21:32, note; Zechariah 11:12-13, note; Matthew 26:15, note. It was the object of Moses, not at once to do away with slavery, but to discourage and to mitigate it. The Law would not suffer it to be forgotten that the slave was a man, and protected him in every way that was possible at the time against the injustice or cruelty of his master. See the notes at Exodus 21:0.

Leviticus 25:46

Your bondmen forever - i. e. they were not necessarily to be released in the sabbatical year nor at the Jubilee.