your possession] A perpetuall possession; for they shall not be bought out at the yeere of Jubile, though they were Proselytes, or converts to the Jewish religion; for the difference betwixt an Israelite and one of another nation, and the preeminence of the one above the other, was a priviledge of pedegree from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and not of profession, though he that forsooke his religion, was not worthy to enjoy this priviledge; and he that sincerely embraced religion, (though an alien in nation and nature from the Israelites) no doubt had a more easie bondage then another bondman.