Discovery BoxLeviticus 25:39 
Context25:39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. 1
Leviticus 25:47
Context25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers 2 and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that 3 he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member 4 of a foreigner’s family,
1 tn Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured servant.
2 tn Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).
3 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
4 tn Heb “offshoot, descendant.”
