Leviticus 25:39-48

³⁹“‘If your brother has grown poor amongst you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

⁴⁰As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.

⁴¹Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

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

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

⁴⁴“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

⁴⁵Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live amongst you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

⁴⁶You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

⁴⁷“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living amongst you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,

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