Exodus 21:2

“And if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.

‘If a brother 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.

‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

“If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall let him go to be free from you.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah had cut a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them:

“At the end of seven years each of you shall let his Hebrew brother go who has been sold to you and has served you six years, and you shall let him go to be free from you; but your fathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

“I gave them My statutes and made them know My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them.

“But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.