Leviticus 25:39-55 - Release Of Slaves

³⁹ " 'And if your countryman [who is] with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, {you shall not treat him as a slave}. ⁴⁰ He shall be with you like a hired worker, like a temporary resident; he shall work with you until the Year of Jubilee. ⁴¹ And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors he shall return. ⁴² Because they [are] my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold {as a slave}. ⁴³ You shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but you shall revere your God. ⁴⁴ " 'As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that [are] all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman. ⁴⁵ And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you. ⁴⁶ And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to take possession of as property {for all time}--you may let them work. But [as for] your countrymen, the {Israelites}, you shall not rule with ruthlessness over {one another}.

⁴⁷ " 'And if [the] alien or [the] temporary resident [who are] with you {prosper}, but your countryman [who is] with him becomes poor and he is sold to an alien, a temporary resident [who is] with you, or to a descendant of an alien's clan, ⁴⁸ after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him, ⁴⁹ or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or {one of} {his close relatives} from his clan may redeem him; or [if] {he prospers}, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰ And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of {his selling himself} until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years--it shall be with him like a hired worker's days. ⁵¹ If [there are] still many years, {in keeping with them} he shall restore his redemption {in proportion to his purchase price}. ⁵² And if [there are] a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption {according to the number of his years}. ⁵³ He shall be with him {as a yearly hired worker}; he shall not rule over him with ruthlessness {in your sight}. ⁵⁴ And if he is not redeemed by [any of] these [ways], then he and his sons with him shall go out in the Year of Jubilee. ⁵⁵ Indeed, the {Israelites} [are] servants for me; they [are] my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I [am] Yahweh your God.'"

¹² If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and [he or she] has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person [out] {free}. ¹³ And when you send him [out] free from you, you shall not send him [away] empty-handed. ¹⁴ You shall generously supply him from [among] your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; [according to] that [with which] Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ¹⁵ And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I [am] commanding you thus {today}. ¹⁶ And then [if] it will happen [that] he says to you, '{I do not want to go out} from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him [to be] with you; ¹⁷ then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust [it] through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you {a slave forever}; and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. ¹⁸ It shall not be hard in your eyes {when you send him forth free}, because for six years he has served you [worth] twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you {in whatever you will do}.