Leviticus 25:47-55

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.

⁵⁴If they are not bought back in any of the ways described, they and their children shall be freed in the Jubilee Year.

⁵⁵For the Israelites belong to me as my slaves. They are my slaves—I led them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”