Acquisition of a non-Jewish slave by a Jew is expressly stated in the Jerusalem Talmud ("Baba Bathra" 3:1 as being acquired in the following manner: A child who has been abandoned in the marketplace and who has been taken-up by a stranger, if his parents cannot be found, nor two witnesses who are able to claim that the child is the son of so-and-so, the child is then called an "asūfī" ("foundling") and may be handled as a slave by its patron, namely, the person who took him in. Even so, this is on the condition that the child is so small that he is unable to move about on his own volition, from one distant place to another distant place. Had three years passed without objection, the child can be handled as his "bona fide" slave. In this case, the child is circumcised, immersed in a ritual bath, and obligated to keep the commandments as Jewish women.