Levítico 25:44

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Así tu siervo como tu sierva que tuvieres, serán de las naciones que están en vuestro alrededor: de ellos compraréis siervos y siervas.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
"En cuanto a los esclavos y esclavas que puedes tener de las naciones paganas que os rodean, de ellos podréis adquirir esclavos y esclavas.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
As� tu siervo como tu sierva que tuvieres, ser�n de las gentes que est�n en vuestro alrededor: de ellos comprar�is siervos y siervas.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
As� tu esclavo como tu esclava que tuvieres, ser�n de los gentiles que est�n en vuestro alrededor; de ellos comprar�is esclavos y esclavas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 12:44, Psalms 2:8, Psalms 2:9, Isaiah 14:1, Isaiah 14:2, Revelation 2:26, Revelation 2:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:2 - an Hebrew Numbers 31:18 - keep alive for yourselves Deuteronomy 5:14 - thy manservant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,.... Such it seems were allowed them, if they had need of them; but if they had them, they were to be not of the nation of Israel, but of other nations; this is an anticipation of an objection, as Jarchi observes; if so, who shall I have to minister to me? The answer follows, they

[shall be] of the heathen that are round about thee, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids; that is, of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Syrians, as Aben Ezra, that were their neighbours, that lived round about them, of any but the seven nations, which they were ordered utterly to destroy; wherefore Jarchi observes it is said, "that are round about thee"; not in the midst of the border of your land, for them they were not to save alive, Deuteronomy 20:16.

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.