Leviticus 25:29–41

²⁹“If anyone sells a dwelling house in a walled city, it may be redeemed until a year has elapsed since its sale; the right of redemption shall be one year. ³⁰If it is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed, a house that is in a walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the purchaser, throughout the generations; it shall not be released in the Jubilee. ³¹But houses in villages that have no walls around them shall be classed as open country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. ³²As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.^{* 33}Whatever property of the Levites that may be redeemed, that is, houses sold in a city belonging to them, shall be released in the Jubilee, for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites. ³⁴But the pasturelands around their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession for all time.

³⁵“If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you,^k you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident aliens.^{* 36}Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.^{* 37}You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance or provide them food at a profit. ³⁸I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.^*

³⁹“If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves.^{* 40}They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the Jubilee. ⁴¹Then they and their children with them shall go out from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property.^*