Leviticus 25:36-46

³⁶Do not charge him interest or try to profit from him in any way, but honor your God so that your brother may keep living with you.

³⁷You must not give him a loan of money and charge interest, nor sell him your food to earn a profit.

³⁸I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, in order that I might give you the land of Canaan, and that I might be your God.

³⁹If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.

⁴⁰Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee.

⁴¹Then he will go away from you, he and his children with him, and he will return to his own family and to his fathers' property.

⁴²For they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as slaves.

⁴³You must not rule over them harshly, but you must honor your God.

⁴⁴As for your male and female slaves, whom you can obtain from the nations who live around you, you may buy slaves from them.

⁴⁵You may also buy slaves from the foreigners who are living among you, that is, from their families who are with you, children who have been born in your land. They may become your property.

⁴⁶You may provide such slaves as an inheritance for your children after you, to hold as property, and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your brothers among the people of Israel with harshness.