25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves 5 who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. 6 25:45 Also you may buy slaves 7 from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are 8 with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
1 tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61.
2 tn Heb “And any earthenware vessel which shall fall from them into its midst.”
3 tn Heb “all which is in its midst.”
3 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”
4 tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.
5 tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”
5 tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.
6 tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).