John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:44
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have ,.... Such it seems were allowed them, if they had need of them; but if they had them, they were to be not of the nation of Israel, but of other nations; this is an anticipation of an objection, as Jarchi observes; if so, who shall I have to minister to me? The answer follows, they shall be of the heathen that are round about thee, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids ; that is, of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:39-55
We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God's sons, his first-born. Now the law is, I. That a native Israelite should never be made a bondman for perpetuity. If he was sold for debt, or for a crime, by the house of judgment, he was to serve but six years, and to go out the seventh; this was appointed, Exod. 21:2. But if he sold... read more