Leviticus:25:39-55

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* And if thy brother become poor near thee , and be sold unto thee : thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond –servant . * But as a hired laborer , as a sojourner , shall he be with thee ; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve with thee : * And then shall he depart from thee , he and his children with him ; and he shall return unto his own family , and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return . * For my servants are they , whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : they shall not be sold as bond –men are sold . * Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor ; but thou shalt have fear of thy God . * But thy bond –man , and thy bond –woman that shall remain thine , shall be of the nations that are round about you ; of them may ye buy bond –man and bond –woman . * And also of the children of the strangers that sojourn with you , of them may ye buy , and of their families that are with you , which they have begotten in your land ; and they shall remain to you as a possession . * And ye may transfer them as an inheritance for your children after you , to inherit them for a possession ; you may hold them to service for ever ; but over your brethren the children of Israel , one over the other , ye shall not rule with rigor . * And if a stranger or sojourner wax rich near thee , and thy brother become poor near him , and he sell himself unto the sojourning stranger near thee , or to a descendant of a stranger ’s family : * After he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption ; one of his brethren may redeem him . * Either his uncle , or his uncle ’s son , may redeem him , or any that is near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him ; or if he obtain the means , he may redeem himself . * And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee : and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years , as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him . * If there be yet many years , according to them shall he return the price of his redemption out of his purchase –money . * And if there remain but few years unto the year of the jubilee : then shall he reckon with him ; according to his years shall he return the price of his redemption . * As a laborer hired from year to year shall he be with him ; he shall not rule over him with rigor before thy eyes . * And if he be not redeemed by these means : then shall he go out in the year of the jubilee , both he , and his children with him . * For unto me are the children of Israel servants , my servants are they , whom I have brought forth out of the land of Egypt : I am the Eternal your God .

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