Leviticus 25:34-49

³⁴And a field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for a perpetual possession is it unto them.

³⁵And if thy brother become poor, and fall in decay with thee: then shalt thou assist him, yea a stranger, or a sojourner, that he may live with thee.

³⁶Thou shalt not take of him any usury or increase; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.

³⁷Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

³⁸I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give unto you the land of Canaan, to be unto you a God.

³⁹And if thy brother become poor near thee, and be sold unto thee: thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond-servant.

⁴⁰But as a hired laborer, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve with thee:

⁴¹And then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him; and he shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

⁴²For my servants are they, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bond-men are sold.

⁴³Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but thou shalt have fear of thy God.

⁴⁴But thy bond-man, and thy bond-woman that shall remain thine, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them may ye buy bond-man and bond-woman.

⁴⁵And also of the children of the strangers that sojourn with you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; and they shall remain to you as a possession.

⁴⁶And ye may transfer them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; you may hold them to service for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel, one over the other, ye shall not rule with rigor.

⁴⁷And if a stranger or sojourner wax rich near thee, and thy brother become poor near him, and he sell himself unto the sojourning stranger near thee, or to a descendant of a stranger's family:

⁴⁸After he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption; one of his brethren may redeem him.

⁴⁹Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he obtain the means, he may redeem himself.