Leviticus 25:40-53

⁴⁰He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee 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 a one shall not be sold as a common servant.

⁴³Thou shalt not oppress him with labor, and shalt fear the Lord thy God.

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

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

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

⁴⁷And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, 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 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.

⁵²And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

⁵³as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not oppress him with labor before thee.