And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
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Gill's Exposition
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Prohibition of permanent servitude of one Israelite to another(H and P mixed, the former probably preponderating)
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