Leviticus 25:37-51

³⁷You shall not lend your money to him at interest, and you shall not lend your meat to him to be returned with increase.

³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, so as to be your God.

³⁹And if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.

⁴⁰He shall be with you as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for you till the year of release:

⁴¹and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.

⁴²Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a common servant.

⁴³You shall not oppress him with labour, and shall fear the Lord your God.

⁴⁴And whatever number of menservants and maidservants you shall have, you shall purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about you.

⁴⁵And of the sons of the sojourners that are amongst you, of these you° shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.

⁴⁶And you° shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labours.

⁴⁷And if a stranger or sojourner with you wax rich, and your brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with you, or to a proselyte by extraction;

⁴⁸after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shall redeem him.

⁴⁹A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall redeem him; or let one of his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself,

⁵⁰then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.

⁵¹And if any have a greater number of years than enough, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.