³⁵“ ‘And if your^y countryman^z becomes poor and if he becomes dependent on you,^a then^b you shall support him like an alien and like a temporary resident, and he shall live with you. ³⁶You^c must not take interest or^d usury from him, but^e you shall revere your God, and your countryman^f shall live with you. ³⁷You^g must not give your money to him with interest or^h give your food forⁱ profit. ³⁸I am Yahweh your^j God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you^k the land of Canaan, to be as God for you.

³⁹“ ‘And if your^l countryman^m who is with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, you shall not treat him as a slave.ⁿ ⁴⁰He shall be with you like a hired worker, like a temporary resident; he shall work with you until the Year of Jubilee. ⁴¹And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors^o he shall return. ⁴²Because they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold as a slave.^p ⁴³You^q shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but^r you shall revere your God.

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Footnotes

ySingular throughout this verse
zOr “brother”
aLiterally “and his hand is shaky with you”
bOr “and”
cSingular throughout this verse
dOr “and”
eOr “and”
fOr “brother”
gSingular throughout this verse
hOr “and”
iOr “in” or “with”
jPlural throughout this verse
kLiterally “to you”
lSingular throughout this verse
mOr “brother”
nLiterally “you shall not let him work the work of a slave” or “you shall not enslave him the work of a slave”
oOr “fathers”
pLiterally “a selling of a slave”
qSingular throughout this verse
rOr “and”