Leviticus Chapter 25
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25:39. If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.
25:40. But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.
25:41. And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.
25:42. For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.
25:43. Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.
25:44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:
25:45. And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:
25:46. And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
25:47. If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:
25:48. After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:
25:49. Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:
25:50. Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.
25:51. If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.
25:52. If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years.
25:53. His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
25:54. And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
25:55. For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.