25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves 2 who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. 3
1 tn Heb “You shall not rule in him in violence”; cf. NASB “with severity”; NIV “ruthlessly.”
2 tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.
3 tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”