¹ tn Or “slave.”

⁶ tn Heb “house of slaves.”

¹ tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

¹ tn Heb “from being to them slaves.”

³ tn Grk “slaves of.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.

² tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.

¹ tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskē), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.

² tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskē), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.

² tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskē), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.

¹ tn See the note on “fellow slave” in 1:7.

¹ tn See the note on “fellow slave” in 1:7.

¹ tn See the note on “fellow slave” in 1:7.

¹ tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”

³ tn Heb “to become slaves” (also later in this verse).

⁴ tn Heb “the house of slaves” meaning “the land of slavery.”

² sn Slaves. See the note on this word in v. 21.

³ tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the second slave’s report.

² tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”

⁵ sn The slave’s action in beginning to beat the other slaves was not only a failure to carry out what was commanded but involved doing the exact reverse.