Shēnméngjì 15:12

12 Nǐ dìxiōng zhōng , ruò yǒu yī gè Xībólái nánrén huò Xībólái nǚrén beì maì gĕi nǐ , fúshì nǐ liù nián , dào dì qī nián jiù yào rén tā zìyóu chū qù .

Shēnméngjì 15:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 15:12

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold
unto thee
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 ( Exodus 21:2 Exodus 21:7 ) ( 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 ^F7: 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 ( Exodus 21:2 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Kiddushin. c. 1. sect. 2.

Shēnméngjì 15:12 In-Context

10 Nǐ zǒng yào gĕi tā , gĕi tāde shíhou xīnli bùkĕ chóu fán . yīn Yēhéhuá nǐde shén bì zaì nǐ zhè yīqiè suǒ xíng de , bìng nǐ shǒu lǐ suǒ bàn de shì shàng , cì fú yǔ nǐ .

11 Yuánlái nà dì shàng de qióngrén yǒng bú duàn jué . suǒyǐ wǒ fēnfu nǐ shuō , zǒng yào xiàng nǐ dì shàng kùnkǔ qióngfá de dìxiōng sōng kāi shǒu .

12 Nǐ dìxiōng zhōng , ruò yǒu yī gè Xībólái nánrén huò Xībólái nǚrén beì maì gĕi nǐ , fúshì nǐ liù nián , dào dì qī nián jiù yào rén tā zìyóu chū qù .

13 Nǐ rén tā zìyóu de shíhou , bùkĕ shǐ tā kōng shǒu ér qù ,

14 Yào cóng nǐ yáng qún , hécháng , jiǔ zhà zhī zhōng duō duō dì gĕi tā . Yēhéhuá nǐde shén zĕnyàng cì fú yǔ nǐ , nǐ yĕ yào zhàoyàng gĕi tā .