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If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich ,
and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you ,
or to a member of the stranger '
s family ,
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then after he is sold he may be redeemed ;
one of his brothers may redeem him ,
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or his uncle ,
or his cousin may redeem him ,
or a near kinsman belonging to his family may redeem him ;
or if he grows rich he may redeem himself .
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He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee ,
and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years ;
the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant .
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If there are still many years ,
according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption .
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If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee ,
he shall make a reckoning with him ;
according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption .
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As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him ;
he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight .
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And if he is not redeemed by these means ,
then he shall be released in the year of jubilee ,
he and his children with him .