Leviticus 25:39-55 - Release Of Slaves

³⁹ And when thy brother shall be poor with thee, and he was sold to thee, thou shalt not serve upon him the service of a servant. ⁴⁰ As the hireling, as the sojourner, he shall be with thee; till the year of jubilee he shall serve with thee; ⁴¹ And he shall go forth from thee, he and his sons with him, and turn back to his family, to the possession of his fathers shall he turn back. ⁴² For they are my servants whom I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold from the sale of a servant ⁴³ Thou shalt not rule over him with crushing, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God. ⁴⁴ And thy servant and thy maid which shall be to thee, from the nations which are round about you, from them ye shall buy servant and maid. ⁴⁵ And from the sons of the sojourner sojourning with you, from them shall ye buy, and from their families which are with you, which were born in your land: and they were to you for a possession. ⁴⁶ And ye shall possess them for your sons after you to take possession forever; ye shall serve with them: and over your brethren the sons of Israel, ye shall not rule over him, each over his brother with oppression.

⁴⁷ And if the hand of a stranger and sojourner with thee shall attain, and thy brother with him be poor, and he sold to the stranger, a sojourner with thee, or to the root of the stranger's family: ⁴⁸ After the selling, redemption shall be to him; one from his brethren shall redeem him: ⁴⁹ Or his uncle, or his uncle's son shall redeem him, or from the remainder of his flesh from his family, shall redeem him; or his hand attained, and he redeemed himself. ⁵⁰ And he reckoned with him buying him, from the year of his being sold to him till the year of the jubilee: and the silver of his selling was according to the number of years, as the days of a hireling, shall it be with him. ⁵¹ If yet a multitude of years, according to them he shall return his redemption from the silver of his sale. ⁵² And if a fewness remained to the years till the year of jubilee; and he reckoned to him according to his years, he shall return his redemption. ⁵³ As the hireling of the year by the year shall he be with him: he shall not rule him by crushing to thine eyes. ⁵⁴ And if he shall not be redeemed in these, and he shall go forth in the year of the jubilee, he and his sons with him. ⁵⁵ For to me the sons of Israel are servants; they are my servants which I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.

¹² When thy brother a Hebrew, or Hebrewess, shall be sold to thee, and serving thee six years; in the seventh year thou shalt send him away free from thee. ¹³ And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. ¹⁴ Furnishing, thou shalt furnish to him from thy sheep and from thy threshing floor, and from thy wine vat: with which Jehovah thy God blessed thee thou shalt give to him. ¹⁵ And remember that thou wert a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God will redeem thee: for I command thee this word this day. ¹⁶ And it was when he shall say to thee, I will not go forth from thee; for he loved thee and thy house, for it was well to him with thee; ¹⁷ And take an awl and give it upon his ear, and against the door, and he was to thee for a servant forever. And also to thy maid shalt thou do thus. ¹⁸ It shall not be hard in thine eye in thy sending him away free from thee, because for the year of the wages of the hireling he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all which thou shalt do.