Leviticus 25:47–26:1

⁴⁷“If resident aliens among you prosper, and if any of your kin fall into difficulty with one of them and sell themselves to an alien or to a branch of the alien’s family, ⁴⁸even after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them,^{* 49}or their uncle or their uncle’s son may redeem them, or anyone of their family who is of their own flesh may redeem them, or if they prosper they may redeem themselves.^{* 50}They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the Jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer.^{* 51}If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price,^{* 52}and if few years remain until the Jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption. ⁵³As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien’s authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight. ⁵⁴And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go out in the Jubilee year. ⁵⁵For to me the Israelites are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Rewards for Obedience

²⁶“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.^*