Leviticus [Pertaining to Levites] 25:33-51

³³The Levites Descendants of United with may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites Descendants of United with are their possession among the children of Israel God prevails.

³⁴But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

³⁵“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

³⁶Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

³⁷You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

³⁸I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt Abode of slavery, to give you the land of Canaan Humbled, and to be your God. (RY:4, LY:6)

³⁹“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

⁴⁰As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Jubilee Year ·Shofar Year·:

⁴¹then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall teshuvah ·completely return· to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt Abode of slavery. They shall not be sold as slaves.

⁴³You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

⁴⁴“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

⁴⁵Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

⁴⁶You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel God prevails you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. (LY:7)

⁴⁷“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;

⁴⁸after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

⁴⁹or his dod ·uncle·, or his dod ·uncle’s· son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

⁵⁰He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Jubilee Year ·Shofar Year·. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

⁵¹If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.