And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: (25:39)

[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: (25:40)

And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return (25:41)

For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen (25:42)

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God (25:43)

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids (25:44)

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession (25:45)

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour (25:46)

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: (25:47)

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: (25:48)

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself (25:49)

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him (25:50)

If [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for (25:51)

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption (25:52)

[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight (25:53)

And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him (25:54)

For unto me the children of Israel [are] servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the Lord your God (25:55)

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