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.

⁴⁴“ ‘As for^s your^t slave and your^u slave woman who are^v yours,^w from the nations that are all around you,^x from them you^y may buy a slave or^z a slave woman. ⁴⁵And you^a may buy also from the children^b of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed,^c they may be as property for you. ⁴⁶And you^d may pass them on as an inheritance to your^e sons^f after you^g to take possession of as property for all time^h—youⁱ may let them work. But^j as for your^k countrymen,^l the Israelites,^m youⁿ shall not rule with ruthlessness over one another.^o

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Footnotes

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”
sOr “And”
tSingular
uSingular
vOr “may be” (permission; cf. NASU, ESV, NRSV) or “can be” (ability)
wSingular
xPlural
yPlural
zOr “and”
aPlural throughout this verse
bOr “sons”
cOr “and”
dPlural
ePlural
fOr “children”
gPlural
hLiterally “to eternity” or “forever” or “for a long duration”
iPlural
jOr “And”
kPlural
lOr “brothers”
mLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
nSingular
oLiterally “a man over his brother”