Leviticus 25:39-46
Read Leviticus 25 in full →39‘aIf 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. 40‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as aif he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. 41‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers. 42‘For they are My slaves whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold in a slave sale. 43‘aYou shall not have dominion over him with brutality, but you shall fear your God. 44‘As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the nations that are around you. 45‘And also you may acquire from the sons of the foreign residents who sojourn among you, from them and their families who are with you; as for those whom they have begotten in your land, they also may become your possession. 46‘You may even give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. aBut in respect to your brothers, the sons of Israel, you shall not have dominion over one another with brutality.