Leviticus 25:39-55 - Release Of Slaves

³⁹ 'And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service; ⁴⁰ as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, -- ⁴¹ then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back. ⁴² For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold with the sale of a servant; ⁴³ thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God. ⁴⁴ And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast are of the nations who are round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid, ⁴⁵ and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession; ⁴⁶ and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy for a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

⁴⁷ And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth riches, and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner, ⁴⁸ after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him, ⁴⁹ or his uncle, or a son of his uncle, doth redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, doth redeem him, or -- his own hand hath attained -- then he hath been redeemed. ⁵⁰ 'And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him. ⁵¹ If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption money, from the money of his purchase. ⁵² And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption money; ⁵³ as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes. ⁵⁴ And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he hath gone out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him. ⁵⁵ For to Me are the sons of Israel servants; My servants they are, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, am your God.

¹² When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years -- then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee. ¹³ And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty; ¹⁴ thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; of that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him, ¹⁵ and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day. ¹⁶ And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because it is good for him with thee -- ¹⁷ then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put it through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so. ¹⁸ 'It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.