Leviticus 25:39-55

³⁹If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants:

⁴⁰But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee,

⁴¹And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers,

⁴²For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:

⁴³Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.

⁴⁴Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you.

⁴⁵And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants:

⁴⁶And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.

⁴⁷If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:

⁴⁸After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

⁴⁹Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself,

⁵⁰Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant,

⁵¹If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.

⁵²If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years,

⁵³His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.

⁵⁴And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.

⁵⁵For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.