43. You must not be a cruel master to them. You must respect your God.
44. “About your men and women slaves: You may get men and women slaves from the other nations around you.
45. Also, you may get children as slaves if they come from the families of the foreigners living in your land. These child slaves will belong to you.
46. You may even pass these foreign slaves on to your children after you die so that they will belong to them. They will be your slaves forever. You may make slaves of these foreigners. But you must not be a cruel master over your own brothers, the Israelites.
47. “Maybe a foreigner or visitor among you becomes rich. Or maybe someone from your own country becomes so poor that they sell themselves as slaves to a foreigner living among you or to a member of a foreigner’s family.
48. These people have the right to be bought back and become free. Someone from their own country can buy them back.