Discovery BoxLeviticus 25:14 
Context25:14 If you make a sale 1 to your fellow citizen 2 or buy 3 from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother. 4
Leviticus 25:44
Context25:44 “‘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
1 tn Heb “sell a sale.”
2 tn Or “to one of your countrymen” (NIV); NASB “to your friend.”
3 tn The Hebrew infinitive absolute קָנֹה (qanoh, “buying”) substitutes for the finite verb here in sequence with the previous finite verb “sell” at the beginning of the verse (see GKC 345 §113.z).
4 tn Heb “do not oppress a man his brother.” Here “brother” does not refer only to a sibling, but to a fellow Israelite.
5 tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.
6 tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”
