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And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you shall not lay on him the service of a slave.

He shall be with you as a hireling, as a tenant he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee;

then he shall go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family; he shall even return to the possession of his father.

For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold with the sale of a slave.

You shall not rule over him with severity, and you shall fear your God.

And your male slave and your female slave whom you have shall be from the nations who are all around you, you shall buy them as male slave or female slave;

and also you may buy of the sons of the tenants who are residing with you, and of their families who are with you, which they have fathered in your land. And they shall be a possession to you.

And you shall take them for inheritance to your sons after you, to hold for a possession; you may lay service on them forever. But on your brothers, the sons of Israel, one over another, you shall not rule over him with severity.

And if an alien or a tenant lifts up a hand with you, and your brother grows poor with him, and he sells himself to an alien, a tenant with you, or to the offshoot of the family of an alien,

after he has been sold, there is a redemption to him; one of his brothers may redeem him,

or his uncle, or a son of his uncle, may redeem him, or any of his fleshly relations of his family may redeem him. Or, if his own hand has reached out to gain , then he may be redeemed.

And he shall count with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the year of jubilee, and the silver of his sale shall be by the number of years. As the days of a hireling, it shall be with him.

If there are yet many years, by mouth he shall give back his redemption, from the silver of his purchase.

And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him according to his years he shall give back his redemption price.

As a hireling, year by year, he shall be with him, and he shall not rule him with severity before your eyes.

And if he is not redeemed in this way, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

For the sons of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.