Commentary for Bava Batra 184:11

רישא

[If] one sold to another a slave who was found to have been a thief or a gambler,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] cf. [G] 'gambler', [G] 'crafty person'. ');">¹⁸</span> the sale is valid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he reached him'. ');">¹⁹</span> [If the slave was found to have been] an armed robber or one prescribed by the government '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., 'sentenced to death'. ');">²⁰</span> [the buyer may] say to him; 'This is yours; take him'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'Here is yours before you, and the seller must return the purchase money. ');">²¹</span> Now in the case of] the first clause,

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