Leviticus 25:39–46

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.