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

⁴⁷“ ‘And if the alien or^p the temporary resident who are with you^q prosper,^r but^s your countryman^t who is with him becomes poor and he is sold to an alien, a temporary resident who is with you, or to a descendant of an alien’s clan, ⁴⁸after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him, ⁴⁹or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or one of^u his close relatives^v from his clan may redeem him; or if he prospers,^w he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of his selling himself^x until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years—it shall be with him like^y a hired worker’s days. ⁵¹If there are still many years, in keeping with them^z he shall restore his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.^a ⁵²And if there are a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then^b he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption according to the number of his years.^c ⁵³He shall be with him as a yearly hired worker;^d he shall not rule over him with ruthlessness in your^e sight.^f ⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by^g any of these ways,^h thenⁱ he and his sons with him shall go out in the Year of Jubilee. ⁵⁵Indeed,^j the Israelites^k are servants for me; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your^l God.’ ”

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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”
pOr “and”
qSingular throughout this verse
rLiterally “the hand produces”
sOr “and”
tOr “brother”
uLiterally “from”
vLiterally “the direct relative of his flesh”
wLiterally “his hand produces”
xLiterally “his being sold for him”
yOr “as”
zLiterally “to the mouth of them”
aLiterally “from the price of his acquisition”
bOr “and”
cLiterally “according to the mouth of his years”
dLiterally “as a hired worker of a year in a year”
eSingular
fLiterally “to your eyes” or “for your eyes”
gOr “in”
hBracketed words provided from the sense of the context
iOr “and”
jEmphatic use of כִּי, since there is no indication of direct causation to only what precedes in vv. 47–54; or “Because”
kLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
lPlural