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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Levítico 25:45
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"También podréis adquirirlos de los hijos de los extranjeros que residen con vosotros, y de sus familias que están con vosotros, que hayan sido engendradas en vuestra tierra; éstos también pueden ser posesión vuestra.
Tambi�n comprar�is de los hijos de los forasteros que viven entre vosotros, y de los que del linaje de ellos son nacidos en vuestra tierra, que est�n con vosotros; los cuales tendr�is por posesi�n:
Tambi�n comprar�is de los hijos de los forasteros que viven entre vosotros, y de los que del linaje de ellos son nacidos en vuestra tierra, que est�n con vosotros; los cuales tendr�is por posesi�n.
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Isaiah 56:3-6
Reciprocal: Exodus 21:2 - and in the Exodus 21:21 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Moreover, of the children of the strangers, that do sojourn among you,.... The uncircumcised sojourners as they are called in the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, proselytes of the gate, such of the nations round about who came and sojourned among them, being subject to the precepts given to the sons of Noah respecting idolatry, c. but were not circumcised, and did not embrace the Jewish religion:
of them shall ye buy for bondmen and bondmaids:
and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land; but, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, are not of the Canaanites; though the Jewish writers x say, that one of the nations that lies with a Canaanitish woman, and begets a son of her, he may be bought for a servant; and so if a Canaanitish man lies with one of the nations, and begets a son of her, he may also be bought for a servant:
and they shall be your possession; as servants, as bondmen and bondmaids, and be so for ever to them and their heirs, as follows.
x Torat Cohanim apud Yalkut, par. 1. fol. 195. 1.
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.
