Leviticus 25:35–55

³⁵And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt ^grelieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. ^36hTake thou no usury of him, or increase: but ⁱfear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. ³⁷Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. ^38kI am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

³⁹And ^lif thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: ⁴⁰but as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: ⁴¹and then shall he depart from thee, ^mboth he and his children with him, and shall return unto ⁿhis own family, and ⁿunto the possession of his fathers shall he return. ⁴²For they are ^omy servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. ^43pThou shalt not rule over him ^qwith rigour; but ^rshalt fear thy God. ⁴⁴Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. ⁴⁵Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶And ^sye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ^tye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

⁴⁷And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and ^uthy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family: ⁴⁸after that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may ^xredeem him: ⁴⁹either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any ^ythat is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if ^zhe be able, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, ^aaccording to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him. ⁵¹If there be yet many years behind, ^baccording unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. ⁵²And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. ⁵³And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule ^cwith rigour over him in thy sight. ⁵⁴And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, ^dboth he, and his children with him. ⁵⁵For ^eunto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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