Leviticus 25:39-43
Leviticus 25:39
‘Now if a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.
Leviticus 25:40
He shall be with you as a hired worker, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you up to the year of jubilee.
Leviticus 25:41
He shall then leave you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, so that he may return to the property of his forefathers.
Leviticus 25:42
For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.
Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.