Leviticus 25:27-50

27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

29“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.

30If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

31The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

35“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

38I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan – to be your God.

39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

43You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

48after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

49or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family – may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.

50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.