Discovery BoxLeviticus 25:44-45 
Context25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves 1 who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. 2 25:45 Also you may buy slaves 3 from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are 4 with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
1 tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.
2 tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”
3 tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.
4 tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).
