Leviticus 25:40-53

⁴⁰Have them live with you like a paid worker who is staying with you for a while. They are to work for you until the Jubilee Year.

⁴¹Then they and their children must be freed, and they can go back to their family and to their family's property.

⁴²Israelites are not to be sold as slaves because they belong to me as my slaves—I led them out of Egypt.

⁴³Don't treat them with brutality. Have respect for your God.

⁴⁴Buy your male and female slaves from the surrounding nations.

⁴⁵You can also buy them from foreigners who have come to live among you, or from their descendants born in your land. You can treat them as your property.

⁴⁶You can pass them on to your children to inherit as property after you die. You can make them slaves for life, but you must not brutally treat any of your own people, the Israelites, as a slave.

⁴⁷If a foreigner among you becomes successful, and one of your people living nearby becomes poor and sells themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's family,

⁴⁸they still have the right of being bought back after the sale. A member of their family can buy them back—

⁴⁹an uncle or cousin or any close relative from their family can buy them back. If they become successful, they can buy themselves back.

⁵⁰The person concerned and their buyer will work out the time from the year of the sale up to the Jubilee Year. The price will depend on the number of years, calculated using the daily rate for a paid worker.

⁵¹If there are many years left, they must pay a larger percentage of the purchase price.

⁵²If there are only a few years remaining before the Jubilee Year, then they only have to pay a percentage depending on the number of years still left.

⁵³They are to live with their foreign owner just like a paid worker, hired from year to year, but see to it that the owner doesn't treat him brutally.