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Leviticus 25:34-47 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

34. But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.

35. If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you,

36. do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.

37. You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.

38. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I might give to you the land of Canaan, and so that I may be your God.

39. If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.

40. But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.

41. And after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.

42. For these are my servants, and I led them away from the land of Egypt; let them not be sold into the condition of servitude.

43. Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.

44. Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,

45. and from the newcomers who sojourn with you, or who have been born from them in your land. These you shall have as servants,

46. and, by the right of inheritance, you shall transmit them to your posterity, and you shall possess them forever. But do not oppress your brothers, the sons of Israel, by power.

47. If the hand of a newcomer or a sojourner will have grown strong among you, and your brother, having become impoverished, will have sold himself to him, or to any of his stock,

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