Leviticus 25:40-53

⁴⁰but he shall be as an hired man and a tenant; till to the year of jubilee he shall work with thee,

⁴¹and afterward he shall go out with his free children, and he shall turn again to his kindred, and to the possession of his fathers.

⁴²For they be my servants, and I led them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold by the condition of servants;

⁴³torment thou not them by thy power, but dread thou thy Lord.

⁴⁴A servant and handmaid be to you of the nations that be in your compass, and of the comelings the which be pilgrims with you,

⁴⁵either they that be born of comelings in your land; ye shall have these servants, and by right of heritage ye shall leave them to your after-comers, and ye shall wield them without end;

⁴⁶soothly oppress ye not by power your brethren, the sons of Israel.

⁴⁷If the hand of a comeling or of a pilgrim waxeth strong at you, and thy brother is made poor, and selleth himself to that comeling, either to any of his kin,

⁴⁸he may be again-bought after the selling; he that will of his brethren, again-buy him;

⁴⁹both his father’s brother, and the son of his father’s brother, and his kins-man, and his ally. Else if also he shall be able, he shall again-buy himself,

⁵⁰while the years be reckoned only from the time of his selling till into the year of jubilee; and while the money, for which he was sold, is reckoned by the number of years, and while the hire of an hired man is reckoned.

⁵¹If more years be that dwell till to the jubilee, by these years he shall yield also the price;

⁵²if few years be, he shall set reckoning with him by the number of these years; and he shall yield to the buyer that that is left of the years,

⁵³while those years, in which he served before, be reckoned for hires; a stranger shall not torment an home-born man violently in thy sight.