Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 31:1
בעובד כוכבים שישנו תחת ידך או אינו אלא בעובד כוכבים שאינו תחת ידך אמרת וכי מה אפשר לעשות לו הא אין הכתוב מדבר אלא בעובד כוכבים שישנו תחת ידך :
this refers to a heathen who is under your rule.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'hand.' Even then, the Jew must remain his slave until jubilee.');"><sup>1</sup></span> Yet perhaps it is not so, the reference being to a heathen who is not under your rule? - You can answer; [if so,] what can be done to him?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How can he be forced to provide facilities for redemption?');"><sup>2</sup></span> Hence Scripture speaks only of a heathen who is under your rule.
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