Leviticus 25:39-55

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.

⁵⁰And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him.

⁵¹If there be yet many years, according to them shall he return the price of his redemption out of his purchase-money.

⁵²And if there remain but few years unto the year of the jubilee: then shall he reckon with him; according to his years shall he return the price of his redemption.

⁵³As a laborer hired from year to year shall he be with him; he shall not rule over him with rigor before thy eyes.

⁵⁴And if he be not redeemed by one of these means: then shall he go out in the year of the jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

⁵⁵For unto me are the children of Israel servants, my servants are they, whom I have brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Eternal your God.