The one who sells his slave to an idolator, the slave goes out free and he requires a document of manumission from his first master. Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel says, under what circumstances? When he did not write out a transfer document, but if he wrote a transfer document, that is his document of emancipation. Whether he sold him or gave him as a gift, he has gone free, lest he has gone out to a domain that is not a domain. If the idolator did what the law required, [the slave] goes free, and if not, he does not go free. If he took him as fulfillment for a debt or fell to him as confiscated property (siqariqon), he has gone free. If one inherited slaves from idolators, until they come into his domain, he is permitted to sell them to an idolator, but from the time that they come into his domain, he is prohibited from selling them. And so you say [in the case] of libation wine: until it comes into his domain its money [that is, the money from its sale] its permitted, but from the time it comes into his domain, its money is prohibited. A Jew and an idolator that make a purchase in a partnership and returned and made another purchase in a partnership, he cannot say to him, You take the things that are in such-and-such a place as the first purchase and I the things which are in such-and-such a place as the second purchase. But he says to him, You take the things in such-and-such a place and I’ll take the things in such-and-such a place. In lieu of the first purchase, you take the things that are in such-and-such a place, and I shall take the things that are in such-and-such a place in lieu of the second purchase.

The one who sells his slave outside Eretz Yisrael, [the slave] goes free and requires a document of manumission from his second owner. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says, sometimes he goes free and sometimes he does not go free. Howso? He said to him, “I am so-and-so son of so-and-so. I sold my slave so-and-so to so-and-so of Antioch,” then [the slave] goes free. “To so-and-so of Antioch who resides in Lod,” he does not go free. If one inherited slaves outside of Eretz Yisrael, until they come into Eretz Yisrael he is permitted to sell them outside of Eretz Yisrael, but once they come into Eretz Yisrael, it is prohibited to sell them outside of Eretz Yisrael. A slave that fled outside of Eretz Yisrael, his master does not have the right to sell him. If a slave went with his master to Surya, in that case if he sold him there, he is sold. A slave who went with his master on the condition of returning, they force him to return; on the condition that he would not return, they force him not to return. If he came from outside Eretz Yisrael on the condition that he would return, we do not force him to return; that he wouldn’t we turn, we force him not to return.

The one who sells his slave to an idolators fair, his money [that is, the money resulting from his sale] is prohibited and he must take it to the salt sea. They force his master to redeem him even for a hundred times the amount [for which the master had sold him], and then he sets him free. You find to say: the one who does business at an idolators fair: regarding a beast, it is hamstrung; clothing and vessels, they are left to rot; money and metal tools, one takes the benefit to the salt sea. Produce that is usually poured out is poured out, [that is usually] burnt is burnt, [that is usually] buried is buried. Rabbi Yosei says, one breaks idols and throws them into the wind or casts it into the sea. They said to him, it may even be made into manure, as it says, “Let nothing that has been doomed stick to your hand” (Deut 13:18). Rabbi Yosei said to them, it says, “As for that sinful thing you made . . . [I broke it to bits and ground it thoroughly until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the brook that comes down from the mountain]” (Deut 9:21). They said to him, is that proof? [It has also been said,] “[He took the calf that they had made and burned it, he ground it to powder] and strewed it upon the water and made the Israelites drink it” (Exodus 32:20), teaching that he tested them the same way they test the suspected adulteress. Rabbi Yosei said to them, but it says, “They abandoned their idols there” (II Sam 5:21) and “He also deposed his mother Maakhah from the position of queen mother because had made an abominable thing [for Asherah].” (I Kings 15:13). They said to him: Is there any proof from there? “Asa cut down her abominable thing [and burnt it in Wadi Qidron]” (II Kings 15:13). Rabbi Yosei said to them, but it says, “He broke into pieces the bronze serpent” (II Kings 18:4). They said to him, was this an idol? Didn’t Moses make it? This teaches that Israel went astray after it until Chizqiyah and his son came.