Leviticus 25:39-55

39“If your brother has grown poor among you and sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave labor.

40Let him stay with you as a hired worker or as a temporary resident. He will work for you until the Year of Jubilee,

41then he is to be released from you—he and his children with him—and may return to his own family and to the property of his fathers.

42For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They are not to be sold in a slave sale.

43You are not to rule over him with harshness, but fear your God.

44“As for your male and female slaves whom you may acquire out of the nations that are around you—from them you may buy male and female slaves.

45You may also acquire from among the children of the foreigners dwelling among you, as well as from their families who are with you—those born in your land—they may also become your property.

46You may also leave them an inheritance for your children after you, to receive as a possession. These may become your slaves permanently. But over your brothers, Bnei-Yisrael, you must not rule over one another with harshness.

47“If an outsider or sojourner with you becomes rich, while your brother beside him has become poor and sells himself to the outsider dwelling among you or to a member of the outsider’s family,

48after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

49or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or anyone who is a close relative to him from his family may also redeem him. Or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

50He is to calculate with the one who bought him, from the year that he sold himself to the Year of Jubilee, and the price of his sale will be in proportion to the number of years. Like the days of a hired worker it will be with him.

51If there are still many years, in proportion to those he is to reimburse the price of his redemption from his purchase price.

52If there remain only a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate with him in proportion to his years of service he is to reimburse the price of his redemption.

53He will stay with him as a hired worker, year by year. But he is not to rule with harshness over him in your sight.

54Even if he is not redeemed by these means, then he will still be released in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him.

55For Bnei-Yisrael are My servants—My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Adonai your God.