Leviticus25:44 states
Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves
The question is – what does this mean? An enlightened person can explain it in a heartbeat
Those who are ignorant of themselves will never understand it or accept it
An enlightened person experiences it
Her YOU – is the soul.
The nations around you is the body. Obviously. The soul is in the body and what is around the soul?
Male and female slaves – are the 5 motor organs (male – 5 karmendriya, talking walking using arms, digestion, excretion) and 5 sensory organs (female, sight, hearing tasting, smell and touch). They are slaves for the soul – for the pleasure
Sadly, in most cases, the soul becomes a slave to the senses and helplessly bound follows the taste sensation and the person keeps eating or enjoying the pleasures of life
So what does the word buy slaves mean? – It means if you have enough good merits or karma – those slaves will come to you in the next body. Otherwise many people are born with defective senses or the pleasure of the senses goes away at a young age.
All of bible, hinduism is full of such stories. They were not stupid. They wrote many stories very eloquently
Bhavin