John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 15:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, etc.] By others, as by the sanhedrim for theft, for which a man might be sold, but not a woman, as Jarchi observes; but then a father might sell his daughter for an handmaid, if little and under age; and to such cases this law is supposed to refer; (see <022102>Exodus 21:2,7 22:3) though a man on account of poverty might sell himself: and serve thee six years; as he was bound to do, if his master lived so long; if he died before the six years were out, he was obliged to serve his son, but not his daughter, nor his brother, nor his heirs, as the Jewish writers affirm f167: then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee; that is, at the end of the sixth, and beginning of the seventh year; (see <022102> Exodus 21:2).

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