Leviticus 25:39-55 - Release Of Slaves

³⁹ And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not make him to serve as a bondman. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God. ⁴⁴ And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you, ye shall buy from them, and from their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take them your bondmen forever, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

⁴⁷ And if a stranger or sojourner with thee becomes rich, and thy brother becomes poor beside him, and sells himself to the stranger [or] sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family, ⁴⁸ he may be redeemed after he is sold. One of his brothers may redeem him. ⁴⁹ Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰ And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years. He shall be with him according to the time of a hire ⁵¹ If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. ⁵² And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years. ⁵³ He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. ⁵⁴ And if he is not redeemed by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him. ⁵⁵ 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 LORD your God.

¹² If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee. ¹³ And when thou let him go free from thee, thou shall not let him go empty. ¹⁴ Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As LORD thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him. ¹⁵ And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and LORD thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today. ¹⁶ And it shall be, if he says to thee, I will not go out from thee, because he loves thee and thy house, because he is well with thee, ¹⁷ then thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And also to thy maid-servant thou shall do likewise. ¹⁸ It shall not seem hard to thee when thou let him go free from thee, for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. And LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou do.