39. “‘Someone from your country might become very poor. He might even sell himself as a slave to you. If he does, you must not make him work like a slave.
40. He will be like a hired worker. And he will be like a visitor with you until the year of Jubilee.
41. Then he may leave you. He may take his children and go back to his family and the land of his ancestors.
42. This is because the Israelites are my servants. I brought them out of slavery in Egypt. They must not become slaves again.
43. You must not rule this person cruelly. You must respect your God.
44. “‘You may buy men and women slaves from other nations around you.