Leviticus 25:39-55 - Release Of Slaves

³⁹ And if your brother who lives beside you has become poor, and is sold to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bond-servant. ⁴⁰ As a hired servant, as a temporary resident, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ And he shall depart from you, 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 a slave. ⁴³ You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God. ⁴⁴ Both your male slaves, and your female slaves whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are all around you. You shall buy male slaves and female slaves from them. ⁴⁵ And also you may buy of the sons of the tenants who are staying with you; and from their families that are with you, whom they fathered in your land. And they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶ And you shall take them as an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession; you may lay service on them forever. But you shall not rule over your brothers, the sons of Israel, over one another, with harshness.

⁴⁷ And if an alien or a tenant lifts up a hand among you, and your brother who dwells beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the alien or tenant by you, or to the offshoot of the alien's family, ⁴⁸ after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him; ⁴⁹ either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he is able, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰ And he shall count with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, until the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant it shall be with him. ⁵¹ If there are still many years, he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the silver that he was bought for, according to the years. ⁵² And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years he shall give him again the price of his redemption. ⁵³ As a yearly hired servant he shall be with him; he shall not rule with harshness in your sight. ⁵⁴ 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. ⁵⁵ For to Me the sons of Israel are servants. They are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

¹² If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. ¹³ And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty. ¹⁴ You shall richly bestow on him from your flock, and from your grain floor, and from your winepress; with what Jehovah your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ¹⁵ And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. ¹⁶ And if he says to you, I will not go away from you, because he loves you and your house, because it has been good for him with you; ¹⁷ then you shall take an awl and put it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also to your slave-girl you shall do so. ¹⁸ It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away from you free, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And Jehovah your God shall bless you in all that you do.