44. If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations round you.
45. You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property,
46. and you may leave them as an inheritance to your sons, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any of your fellow-Israelites harshly.
47. Suppose a foreigner living with you becomes rich, while a fellow-Israelite becomes poor and sells himself as a slave to that foreigner or to a member of his family.
48. After he is sold, he still has the right to be bought back. One of his brothers