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-# but you even sell your brothers and sisters that they may be sold back to us
+# but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold back to us
 
-This means that they are selling their family members as slaves to their fellow Jews. The full meaning of this statement can be made clear. Alternate translation: "Now you are selling your own people to be slaves of your fellow Jews, so that they might later sell them back to us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
+This means that they are selling their family members, both men and women, as slaves to their fellow Jews. The full meaning of this statement can be made clear. Alternate translation: "Now you are selling your own people to be slaves of your fellow Jews, so that they might later sell them back to us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
 
 # who had been sold to the nations